Note: These tales were originally part of The Chain Story and hence retain the introductions linking them to the preceding (unrelated) story and to the milieu where the storytellers are relating the accounts.

Ever since a magical encounter in ancient India, the name “Amina Patel” is passed down in the same family through the generations. Two of these stories take place in nineteenth century Brazil; the third, in the twenty-first century United States. Encounter ghosts, cursed talismans, and an international criminal organization of evil.