Yakshi

A famous Urban Legend in Kerala. They are demons disguised as beautiful damsels who appear in white.

Yaakshi lure alone tourists and kill them brutally.

Various cases across southern part of Kerala has been found. Here I will narrate a short story based on true incident.

One day a young photographer named Rakesh traveled to Kerela for his photography. The day he reached Kerela, he wasn't getting any local lifts. He waited there for long. He was standing so long, at the back of a Banyan tree he hanged his bag on a needle and was pissing there. After he completed when he pulled his bag to take it, the needle came along with that bag, he tried to push the needle back there but it fell down. At the mean time a car was coming and Rakesh stopped that car for the lift. He requested that driver many times to accord him a lift. He was lucky that the driver was going in the same way that's why he accompanied Rakesh. They became friendly with each other and discussed about several matters. All of a sudden the driver asked " what were you doing beside that banyan tree?" Rishi replied what he was doing, then slowly the driver told " The local people wouldn't have gone there." Rishi questioned"Why?" the driver replied"In that tree only Yakshi is imprisoned, she is closed with a needle" Rishi found it a bit funny"Yakshi?!" the driver told Rishi about Yakshi and after hearing that Rishi was like "In this generation people are thinking about settling in the universe and and you people are still.....huh" that driver didn't laughed for once. Rishi suddenly told "ummm... You were telling something about that needle?. Actually I hanged my bag there so as I went to pull my bag the needle came out along". The driver got terrified"What?!" Then Rishi with a mixture of fun and seriousness told "That means I had made Yakshi free?" The driver was just speechless and just uttered one word "you shouldn't had move the needle" and suddenly a women wearing a white saree came in front their car.......

-Saptarshi Mandal