Occult Literature
Unmadini Discovers the Exchanged Heads
Unmadini uses a life-restoring thread and incantation after her husband Devasharma and his friend Gunakar are killed on their journey. In the gathering darkness she joins each head to the wrong body, and both revived men become entangled in an argument about identity and marriage. The Baital challenges Vikram to decide which composite person is her husband; the king gives precedence to the head.
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Ernest Griset. "Unmadini Discovers the Exchanged Heads" [editorial title]. In Vikram and the Vampire, Richard F. Burton. Memorial edition, edited by Isabel Burton, 1893, 1893, Tylston and Edwards. Source scan leaf 271. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/vikram-exchanged-heads
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The question of whom the woman belongs to reflects the terms of Burton's adaptation; the description does not endorse its assumptions about marriage.
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Ernest Griset. Unmadini Discovers the Exchanged Heads. Vikram and the Vampire. Scan leaf 271. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/vikram-exchanged-heads