Episode Details

Four friends spend a night in a forest temple, each keeping one watch — and each sees the hermit speak one secret word: the first calls the scattered bones together, the second joins them bone to bone, the third clothes them with flesh, and the fourth breathes life into a deer. Eager to prove their own words, the friends try them on the first bone they find. Then a ship carries them to a splendid city where no living soul remains — and to four princesses who have been waiting for them.

From Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day (1883), public domain; told in a modern in-house rendering.

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