Anjaan: Rural Myths

15 Episodes    40-50 minutes each

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malevolent spirits unfold in villages, jungles and haunted buildings across India.   IMDB

Episode 1:

Radihka is 3 months pregnant and her husband drops her off at her mothers to be looked after before she goes into the hospital to be checked out. This is during the Pitru Paksha period. Oh poor Radihka seems to be a shy, or just scares easily.

Pitru Paksha (Sanskrit: पितृ पक्ष), also spelt as Pitri paksha, Pitr Paksha (literally “fortnight of the ancestors”) is a 16–lunar day period in Hindu calendar when Hindus pay homage to their ancestor (Pitrs), especially through food offerings. The period is also known as Pitru Pakshya, Pitri Pokkho, Sola Shraddha/ Sorha Shraddha in Nepali (“sixteen shraddhas”), Kanagat, Jitiya, Mahalaya Paksha and Apara paksha.
Pitru Paksha is considered by Hindus to be inauspicious, given the death rite performed during the cere…

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Episode 2:

Skondokata- this seems to be india’s version of Sleep Hollow’s Headless horseman (which is not far from me, maybe 30 minutes or 45)

Episode 3 (nope they don’t have titles)

Witches … These witches hold their power in their hair. The power ends if you cut it, she’ll die if you burn the hair (just be sure it fully burns)

The Elders say the witches live near the water within a radius of 7 miles

Episode 4

Badamaans- Half man half wolf   (in Kasmir)

This one a newlywed (eloped) couple on their honeymoon and find a riverboat to stay the night at. They are found by her brother who has nefarious plans and after the night at the boat, they all go camping.

Episode 9 was a curse from an Eunuch

10 The tale of a Mother and daughter who move into a house the neighbors say is haunted. The spirit of a Manjan.

If a child dies suddenly of any reason within 10 days of a Brahmin boy’s Threading ceremony, his soul wanders the world. This is called a Munjan, these spirits move toward their prey in a large counter-clockwise circle known as a circle of death. If the spirit completes this circle all within will die

There’s also

Nish- out at midnight of Full moon   if I remember right, this is the vengeful spirit of someone’s wife that was killed.

One episode has that weird sucking noise from the grudge (which apparently gets the reboot treatment in 2019)   a Djinn

Zukapal- 3 hungry ghostly boys

Quora-What are some Classic supernatural/mythical creatures from your  culture/country?