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

Note 2 — The Frightened Yakā

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having gone there, they utter and utter spells for the Yakā to go. The Yakā does not go. Anger came to the Yakā. In anger that, putting [out of consideration] his saying, “Don’t,” the two persons went and uttered spells, the Queen whom the Yakā has “possessed,” taking a rice pestle, came turning round the house after him in three circles to kill the Vedarāla.2 When she was raising the rice pestle to strike the Vedarāla, the man’s boy said, “Look there, Yakā! Our mother!”

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