{
  "id": 16423957,
  "title": "Meet The Munjya, Vetal And Chetkin: The Local Legends Bringing A Distinctly Desi Flavour To Halloween",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/25/meet-the-munjya-vetal-and-chetkin-the-local-legends-bringing-a",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-25T03:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/lifestyle/meet-the-munjya-vetal-and-chetkin-the-local-legends-bringing-a-distinctly-desi-flavour-to-halloween"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Halloween falls on Saturday, and the city's costume shelves are full of witches, zombies and vampires. Mumbai, though, never needed to import its ghosts. The Konkan coast and the Marathi villages that shaped the city have long had their own: a boy who lives in a peepal tree, a ghost-king who patrols at night and a witch whose cane turns into a snake. Folk-horror films such as Munjya and Tumbbad…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}