In The Indian Antiquary, vol. i, p. 143, Mr. W. C. Benett gave an Oudh story in which Bhawan Misr, a wrestler who had obtained gifts from a demon, lost them by revealing the secret to his wife.
[1] A demon who frequents cemeteries. [↑]
[2] The tom-tom beaters were formerly weavers also. [↑]
No. 144
How a Tom-tom Beater got a Marriage from a Gamarāla
At a certain time there was a Gamarāla. The Gamarāla had a daughter. In the same country there was a very rich Tom-tom Beater (Naekatiyek). There was a son of the Tom-tom Beater’s. In order to make search for a marriage for him he tramped through many countries. From those countries he did not obtain one.
After that, he went to yet a country on the other side of a river. Having gone there, when he looked about there was a Gamarāla at a village [who had a marriageable daughter]. When he asked for the daughter [in marriage], he said he would not give her. Thereupon, thinking and thinking of a scheme he acted accordingly, that is, in this manner.