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Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 5 — Hiṭihāmi the Giant

H. (Henry) Parker translation

On the following day he said to his mother, “Mother, give me food. I indeed sowed the tāwalla; there is still to build the watch-hut in it.” Afterwards his mother gave him food. The child ate the food, and went to the tāwalla. Having gone there, and that very day having made the fence, and that very day having built the watch-hut, he came home. Having eaten food, he went back to the watch-hut, and with his own foot he sprinkles water over the amuṇa and a half of paddy.5

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