Taxonomy
Strengths and Weaknesses
Mythos
Hindu Influence in Western Media
American Influence in Hindu media
100
A spirit that inhabits corpses
What is a vetala?
100
Inhabits corpses to talk to the living
What is an ability of the vetala?
100
The main character of the Baital-pachisi
Who is King Vikram?
100
A popular creature in literature inspired by the vetala
Who is Dracula?
100
The first Hindu zombie movie
What is Rise of the Zombie?
200
Messing up a funerary rite
What is a way to ensure a vetala?
200
Chanting mantras
What is a way to repell the vetala?
200
25
What is the number of riddles the Vetala told King Vikram in the Baital-pachisi?
200
An example of a depiction of the Vetala in a video game
What is the Vetala character in the Witcher video game?
200
A Hindu movie that combines aspects of the Vetala and Dracula
What is Bhoot Mahal?
300
Natural and Man-made
What are the two categories of vetala?
300
The 3 aggressive vetala abilities (that have not been mentioned yet)
What is reanimating corpses?
What is causing illness?
What is causing miscarriages?
What is driving people to madness?
What is devouring failed practitioners?
What is giving powers to successful practitioners?
300
The true antagonist of the Baital-pachisi
Who is the tantric sorcerer?
300
A vetala ability accurately demonstrated in the show Sleepy Hollow
What is shapeshifting?
What is superhuman speed?
300
WILDCARD QUESTION
Answer determined by presenters
400
A common characterization of vetala
What is a vampire?
400
2 passive vetala abilities
What is superhuman speed?
What is shapeshifting?
400
The consequence of King Vikrama knowing the correct answer to a riddle told by the Vetala and withholding it
What is King Vikram's head blowing up into a thousand pieces?
400
A vetala characteristic accurately demonstrated in the show Jekyll and Hyde
What is the reanimation of corpses?
What is the enslavement of the vetala to a tantric sorcerer?
400
A caterpillar
What is the initial cause of the zombie virus in the Bollywood movie Rise of the Zombies?
500
An above-ground site for the putrefaction of bodies
What is a charnel ground?
500
The reason many sorcerors seek to capture and enslave the vetala
What is their knowledge of past, present, future, and human fate?
OR
What is their ability to reanimate corpses?
500
The advice the Vetala gives to King Vikrama
What is asking the tantric sorcerer to show him how to perform his obeisance, then taking advantage of that moment to behead the sorcerer himself?
500
An inaccurate weakness of the vetala in Season 7 Episode 11 of the show Supernatural titled "Adventures in Babysitting"
What is a silver knife to the heart?
500
Recently, there have been more of this in Hindu media than vetala
What is western zombies?