Cruel Ambitions down the drain..

On arriving at Francesca’s place I looked around;
 I knew from the internal source (Francesca’s memory of course) that they were an anti social slightly abnormal family who tried to mind their own business and not step out into the traumatic streets of Colombo if they could help it. But they generally carried out their usual daily Buddhist rituals with all seriousness and were complacent in the feeling that theirs was a happy well-adjusted safe and above all lucky household.

Sadly, I have to report they were not alone there.

3 prits , a bhoot and a restless pisauch were making themselves at home there too, as well as the astral remains of Francesca’s dotty grandmother, who really had no evil designs but labored under a nagging sense of something forgotten. Francesca knew about the latter because of a series of uncomfortable cold, rather grayish, dreams which smelt vaguely of lavender, plus a local Jesus-Saves pastor had mentioned this to her during one of her investigative foreys into the case of the Healer of Milagiriya.


A pisacha is a vampiric spirit often associated with the vetala and the. rakshasa but of a lower order than both of these. They are said to be hideous in appearance and blood thirsty. They haunt charnel grounds and cross-roads. They are blamed as the cause of many illnesses. But, if offered rice at a cross-road by one of his victims in a ceremony that is repeated for days, he might restore his health. The name pisacha is occasionally used in a way that includes all or nearly all the vampiric demons and spirits of India(21) . http://www.deardeath.com/vetala.htm 



Or according to India Divine: (22)
Pisacha ("monster"). Those who are cruelly ambitious even while others starve. They will eat anything and everything without limit, including human flesh

The one in her bathroom drain was not too evil either, merely selfish and clingy, a rather calmer,  much smaller version you may say, and had  lived  existed in her drain for more than a decade,  living lusting on period blood, body grime, tooth brush time spit and on very good days, shaved body hair and the occasional set of nail clippings...

Eastern unhappy spirits are always hungry, perhaps because people were always afraid of being poor and hungry, or because society was jealous of “cruelly ambitious” people who lived in luxury allowing other people to starve, and wished them to become this kind of life form.  The punishment for such sins is being constantly, painfully hungry and never getting any food except repulsive things like this.

 (21) Sri Lanka, like it or lump it , is India’s little cousin and they inherited among other things, all the undead entity names, though it didn’t stop them from having their own  indigenous or home grown types too. More about them later.
  (22) check here at India Divine