Since Shri Betal is said to be the brother of Shri Shantadurga.
There is also a strong Vetala cult in the Konkan region, under the names of Betal, Vetal, etc. Therefore many sorcerers seek to capture them and turn them into slaves.
Being unaffected by the laws of space and time, they have an uncanny knowledge about the past, present, and future and a deep insight into human nature. One can free them from their ghostly existence by performing their funerary rites. These creatures can be repelled by the chanting of mantras. They are hostile spirits of the dead trapped in the 'twilight zone' between life and afterlife. They can drive people mad, kill children, and cause miscarriages, but also guard villages. They make their displeasure known by troubling humans.
In Hindu folklore, the vetala is an evil spirit who haunts cemeteries and takes demonic possession of corpses.
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