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

Note 2 — How a Man Charmed a Thread

H. (Henry) Parker translation

On the following day morning he came back, and tied it on the woman’s arm. At the very instant, the woman, quickly having arisen, does her work. While she was thus, the woman says, “Having hastened quickly, you must distribute [betel].”2

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