While residing at the Jetavana Monastery in Savatthi, the Buddha talked about a peta (hungry ghost) named Pesakara who had once been the wife of a weaver. When she was a human being, she was stingy. She scolded her husband when he donated food and robes to monks. After his death, the husband was reborn as a deity living near a main road and his wife was reborn as a ghost living near him. She was living without food and clothes and burned and in much distress. When she asked for food and clothes from the deity, the food turned into excrement and clothes became hot metal sheets.