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Overview

A traveler meets a ghost and conceals his fear by pretending to be a ghost himself. The spirit crosses water without splashing and admits that it fears wind passing through tall barley. The man consequently rests in a barley field while his companion enters a town.

The ghost steals the prince’s soul and entrusts it to him in a yak-hair sack. Disguised as a lama, the man releases the soul, substitutes a figure made of tsamba meal and secures the bag. The prince recovers and the ghost never returns. This is a fictional encounter involving a false practitioner, not an instruction or verified account of Buddhist ritual.

Soul-thief deceived by a human traveling companionSpecific translated narrative
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Origins & earliest records

Tibetan narrated traditions, as mediated by the Shelton collection

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Records & interpretation

Complete relevant tale, title-page credits, contents and Flora Beal Shelton’s preface read.

Selected bibliography

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Tibetan Folk Tales

    A. L. Shelton, translator; Flora Beal Shelton, editor · 1925

    Tale 12, The Man and the Ghost, pp. 57–61

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

A. L. Shelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (St. Louis: United Christian Missionary Society, 1925), edited by Flora Beal Shelton

Historical English collection. Tale 12, The Man and the Ghost, pp. 57–61

Full tale directly read, including ending; original contents confirms printed locator. Preface read for mediation and absence of individual narrator identification. Primary witness of this historical translation, not an independently checked Tibetan original.

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References

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  1. Historical translated folktaleShelton, Tibetan Folk Tales (1925), 12, The Man and the Ghost, pp. 57–61Research access: 2026-10-05

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