She is known to take away the man of the house who is often the sole earning member of the family, therefore bringing bad luck to the entire household.
So the residents came up with a smart idea of writing "Naale Baa" outside the doors and the walls of their house, So when the ghost reads it and goes back to come again the next day and the cycle repeats.
[5] There was a renewed interest in the legend after reports of similar instances occurred same in a village in Thailand wherein healthy young men began to disappear right under their beds.
In West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand, there is a similar belief about a malevolent spirit called Nishi Dak.
[6] The 2018 Hindi film Stree, starring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkumar Rao, is based on the Naale Baa tale from Karnataka.