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

Note 3 — Holman Pissā

H. (Henry) Parker translation

After that, having gone holding the man’s hand, sitting on the back of the horse she gave him the whip, and told him to drive it along a good path. At that time, that Holman Pissā, owing to his insanity,3 turned down a bye-path without speaking at all, and driving the horse they began to go away. As he was going driving it, it became light. There when the Queen looked the man was a madman.

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