Vetala Tales[1] is a popular collection of short stories from India of unknown age and antiquity, but predating the 11th century CE.
The collection consists of a series of unrelated tales, all told within the context of a frame story similar to Scheherazade's in Arabian nights.
The exact content of the frame stories varies between versions, but always involves the core element of King Vikramaditya carrying a dead body to a yogi or holy man in a cemetery.
It begins Lāl's Hindi translation, and has a close analogue in the Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā).
B) This leads (it is not explained how) to the birth of 3 children in the same city at the same time with linked destinies: the sons of a king, a potter, and an oil merchant.
Vikramaditya questions the yogi who states that he intends to perform rites in a cremation-ground and asks the king to join him on a certain night.
The body turns out to be inhabited by a vetala, who decides to pass the time on the way back to the yogi by telling tales.
An abbreviated version of "Yogi and Vetala" and the Conclusion is given as the 31st of the Thirty-Two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya (Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā).
[15] The compilation, also known as Tales of the Bewitched Corpse, migrated northwards to Tibet (where it appears as Ro-sgrung) and later to Mongolia (where it is known as Siditü kegür, and in Oirat as Siddhi kǖr).