Isabel, Lady Burton & Richard Francis, Sir Burton 
Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the "Golden Ass" of Apuleius, Boccacio’s "Decamerone, " the "Pentamerone, " and all that class of facetious fictitious literature.