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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 3 — The Golden Kaekiri Fruit

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having gone into a great forest, he said, “Daughter, come here in order that I may look at your head.”3 While he was looking and looking at it, the girl fell asleep. Then the man placed the girl against a tree, and tied her to it; and having cut out her two eyes, came home and placed one on the shelf and one in the salt pot. The dog that went with the man having come home, howled, rolling about in the open space in front of the house.

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