my mom wrote NALE BA on our front door in chalk. 90s Bangalore kids will get it

anybody from Karnataka who grew up in the 90s remembers this and it still gives me a chill typing it. Nale Ba. means 'come tomorrow' in Kannada. it went around like wildfire, Malleswaram, Rajajinagar, all over rural Bangalore. the thing was a witch, or a spirit, that came at night and knocked on yo……