A true ghost story(Pisacha)

I took a train to jaisedeah junction with my family .The train started from patna at around 9 pm and reached jaisedeah junction at after midnight .Suddenly it stopped somewhere on small station at Jhajha junction in Jharkhand state .

I was casually looking out of window .The platform was little lighted and on the adjacent tracks there were no trains .Very few people were there on the platform and everything looked very mysterious  . Suddenly i saw a small shadow on the platform . It was a a moving shadow , but shadow was not forming on ground .

Shadow was in air . It looked like a small dog . While moving it felt like it took different shapes .

I saw the light source near platform from inside the train , there was nothing in the way which can cause such a strange shadow . Suddenly two man were about to cross , a man suddenly stopped near the shadow as if he had seen something . The accompanying man told him something and they moved nearby the shadow . The three dimensional shadow was moving very fast around an area . It used to start a center of an are and move as if dog which is in pain restlessly . Sometime it appeared as small child . 

I became little skeptical and told my brother to see out and concentrate if he can see something unusual on the platform . He concentrated a little and he told yes i can see a moving three dimensional shadow like a child , which changes form to dog and some big animal . Only the caricature of it is visible .

We started to watch the shadow very deeply . I got a little afraid and  put curtain on the glass window of train . But due to curiosity i started seeing it after sometime 

After around ten minutes , i saw shadow was not there and there was a train on adjacent platform . I became sure that it was something related to physics . There must be something moving in the path of light and air made it move like that . Since the train came in the path of light so shadow disappeared .

I started seeing people getting down from train . It was around midnight .Suddenly i saw something moving parallel to the train . A human shadow of around 8 feet completely in air was running across the train . It passed through the human bodies and was running continuously . People were not able to see it . I asked my brother he also saw the same thing which i was seeing . It was bend from shoulder , height as much as Indian train  .

This was perhaps a pisacha , of such height . May be it would have died on platform . It was very difficult for me to take it out of my memory what i had seen that night .

Salt Story

A story often told by my father when i was a kid .

There was king , hundreds of year back . He had four daughters . Each one more beautiful then other .

They had soft hair , nice limbs and fragrance like morning blooming flowers . One day the king got curious and wanted to find the intelligence of her daughters .He started calling  each one of them one by one to his personal chamber .

The King

He called the first daughter and asked " Tell me my sweet daughter how much you love me ?"

His first daughter replied " I love you more then all the gold , silvers and gems we have in our treasury ."

Treasure

The king got happy and his curiosity increased more .

He called the second daughter and asked " Tell me my lovely daughter how much you love me ?" 

His second daughter replied " I love you more then all the people whom i love ."

Father again became elated and felt so happy interviewing his daughters .He called the third one and repeated his question .

She replied "My dear father i love you more then the beautiful morning , the fragrant and cold breeze ,the night sky and chirping of small birds ."

Father was awaiting to ask the same question from the daughter he considered wisest .Finally her turn came and her reply made him very angry .

She told " Father i love you more then the salt "

Father told  " All of your sister loves me with the most precious things of nature or gold .
I am very angry with your answer .You leave my kingdom and go ."

She replied " I will leave in the morning but i want to have last time dinner with my sisters and you "

Father agreed on this .So a grand dinner was organised in night .King father took his seat and rest of his daughter followed .King father took the first cup of soup and there was no salt in it .He was about to split it , but he controlled himself and took a bite from starter .Still there was no salt .He became very furious and called his cook .

salt

The King Asked " Why there is no salt in food today . Have not you tasted it as usual before feeding it to royal family "

The cook replied " Your youngest daughter ordered me to make food without salt "

The smallest daughter replied " I wanted to show that as whole food is useless without a tablespoon of salt .
Similarly is my love for you "

King father understood the point .

Bagiya(rice cake) story

This story my mother used to tell in  childhood , it a folk story .

There was a small boy . He felt eating the bagiya(rice cake dish filled with honey ) .He asked his mother to make it .Her mother planted a tree of bagiya and soon tree was laden with bagiya of all shapes and size .Boy had to climb up to enjoy his favorite food .

There came a old lady(monster)  who used to kidnap children and eat them .

Old woman asked " Give me a Bagiya  , it looks so tasty "

The boy told " I will throw it from top of tree you take it on hand  ."

The lady told " Its so hot , it will burn my hand  ."

The boy told " I will throw it from top of tree you take it on your foot . "

The lady told " Its so hot , it will burn my foot  ."

The boy told " I will throw it from top of tree you take it on your head . "

The lady told " Its so hot , it will burn my head  ."

The boy  agreed to come down and give her some bagiya .

As soon as boy came down , the old lady  caught the boy and put him in the sack she was carrying .

She started taking her to her own home , where she had a daughter .

The old lady told to start preparing the spices so that the boy can be cooked .

The daughter  saw the boy , he had very beautiful hair . She got interested and asked the boy how he got such soft and silky hair .

The boy told " Daily his mother kept him in okhali(a wooden vessel where rice is separated from husk by striking it) and hit him with the musal(a log of wood) ".

The daughter asked "Please make my hair beautiful ".

The boy put her head in okhali brought for him and killed her .

He wore all his dress and helped her mother to cook his daughter which she understood to be the kidnapped boy .

After the old lady went away from house he fled away .