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

Note 2 — Nahakoṭā’s Wedding Feast

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Nahakoṭā, having spread nets, came home. While he was in the veranda, as the blood of the fowl [hanging] in that house was falling into the cooking-pot, the pot having become heated, for three watches (each of four hours) when each drop of blood was falling it makes a noise, “Cōs, cōs,”2 like cooking cakes.

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