Betaal also warned the king that if he knew the answer and failed to answer it, he (Betal) would have his head. These were simple stories which contained a moral, and a question at the end posed by Betaal to Vikram. There is also an impending condition set by Betaaal that he would accompany Vikram as long as he kept his vow of silence, never uttering a word.

Each time he succeeds in trapping him but has to listen to a story on his way back. The series was about a righteous king ,Vikram who goes in search of a ghost, Betaal. Doordarshan nostalgia for you…personally I never watched this series but I used to read the story-book about the corpse hanging from a tree that King Vikram needs to collect for a tantric to use in his magickal workings… you need to watch the clip halfway to see the ghost flying and don’t miss the special effects skulls at the very end. Vijayan shuffles off this…īahadır Bobur on M.N. And so on and on.Financeandlegalservi… on Vampires and super-beasties of…īahadır bobur on A British Guy in Gujarat Disco…īeyza bobur on M.N. But if he does speak out, he would break the vow of silence and Betaal would fly back to the treetop, leaving the king inches short of his destination! The king would go after the vampire and start all over again.

En route, the spirit of Betaal (in the corpse) used to narrate a story to the king and after completing the story Betaal would pose a query that if he (The king) knew the answer, was bound to respond lest he will break his head into thousand pieces. According to the legend the King Vikramaditya, in order to fulfill a vow, was required to remove a corpse of betaal from a treetop and carry it on his shoulder to another place in silence. He would have to fetch it for the mendicant, as the mendicant was seeking certain occult powers which he would get only if a king brought this particular corpse to him and if he would practice certain rites sitting on it. There would be a corpse hanging from one of its branches. King Vikramaditya had to visit the northern-most corner of this ground where he would find a very ancient tree.

The mendicant tells that there is a task that only a King like Vikrmaditya can perform. The King asked mendicant why he was doing this. However, the mendicant had set a condition that the King must meet him under a Banyan tree in the center of the cremation ground beyond the city, at night, on the 14th day of the dark half of the month.

Vikram aur betaal end