King Vikramaditya the emperor of Ujjain is supposed to bring betal the vampire to a monk as a favour promised to him. The condition is that this should be done in complete silence or else betal would fly back to his abode. As Vikram fetches the corpse in which betal is residing the vampire starts to narrate a story. At the end of every story he compels king Vikram to solve the puzzle of the story. The stories thus narrated by betal form an interesting series of folk tales.