Here is a lesser known, but interesting, Cambodian tale:

"Many years ago, there lived a ghost in a certain village. He always wandered hither and thither in search of food.

One day, while he was looking for food, he saw a farmer's wife. The ghost liked her very greatly, and when night came, he transformed himself into the farmer that no one could say that he was not the same man. Then he went to lay with her.

When the farmer returned home from his farm work, he saw that ghost reposing in his bed. He then became very angry and dashed to drive him out. But the ghost, pretending to be the woman's husband, said "Where are you from? This house is mine, this woman is my wife and I am her married husband. I do not know why you come here and show such a temper. Tell me what you want! "

The farmer strongly opposed this and said "No, it is I who is her true husband." He uttered exactly the words the ghost did. Thus the quarrel about possessing the woman ran high between the farmer and the ghost. As for the woman, she was awfully perplexed. She did not know for certain who her real husband was, for the two were exactly alike, and she was afraid to take any action for fear she would harm her true husband.

Unable to settle this unhappy matter, the two men decided to go to the court. As the lower court could not find any just way to settle the matter for them, they went to the supreme court. In this second court, there were many expert judges. After hearing the case, they took notice of their appearances. As they observed them carefully from head to foot, they found out a difference.

As wise men know, man's eyes and ghost's eyes are not alike. The ghost's have no iris while man's do. From these different features, the judges knew who of the two was the woman's true husband.

But how could they separate the two from each other? For they were now mirroring each other in every word and action. How could other find out the ghost, and still save the man?

Here was the skilfull way of the judges: They had a small jar brought in and put it in front of them. When this was done, one among the judges declared "The one of you who can get into this jar is the real husband of this woman, and we shall at once offer her to that man who can do this."

On hearing this, the man was very sad. He knew that he could not enter the jar at all. He therefore stood speechless. As to the ghost, he became very glad. He thought that the woman would be his wife forever. Without delay, he made his body very small and went up to the jar. Bowing his head to touch the open mouth of the jar and straightening his feet in the air, the ghost entered the jar very easily.

As soon as the ghost entered the jar, it was firmly closed with a lid. The judges then lifted it up and showed it to the public, saying "Here is a ghost and not a man, for man cannot get into a jar while a ghost can, now we have found out the truth, this man is the true husband of this woman. "

The judges then sent the man and his wife to their home. But the ghost shut up in the jar was throw into the deep water of a lake and no one saw him any more since that day."