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India

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade A. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The entries, in brief

The folklore of India documented in this atlas: Churel. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade A), with the sources it comes from.

Churel A
The ghost of a woman who died in pregnancy, on the day of childbirth, or within the prescribed period of ritual impurity. In the description collected in the field she sometimes appears light in front and black behind, and she…

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