
Five and Twenty Tales of the Genie
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Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India''s greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler''s fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse. The emperor begs the spirit for his help against a mighty necromancer and is told in return twenty-four tales, each of which presents a situation he might face as a ...
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Half mythical, heroic and sagacious, the emperor Vikramaditya is widely regarded as India''s greatest monarch. This collection of stories tells of the ruler''s fabled encounter with a vetala, a genie who inhabits the body of a corpse. The emperor begs the spirit for his help against a mighty necromancer and is told in return twenty-four tales, each of which presents a situation he might face as a ...
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