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

Note 1 — The Kaḍambāwa Men and the Mouse-deer

H. (Henry) Parker translation

As the Kaḍambāwa men were going away with some drums one night, to attend a devil-dance, they met with a Warā1 bush on the path, which looked like an elephant. The men became afraid, thinking, “Maybe an elephant has come onto the path.” At the shaking of the leaves of the Warā bush they said, “He is shaking his ears.”

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