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

Note 4 — The Hunchback Tale

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Having buried the cow, upon the grave he planted a foreign yam plant. [When it had grown], cutting up the foreign yam plant [after digging it up], and having gone and put it in a cooking-pot (haeliya), when he had placed it on the [fire on the] hearth, at the time when it boils4 with the sound2 that goes “Kuda goda goda, Kuda goda goda,”5 the man having become angry carried [the pot] also away, and struck it on the stone [and broke it].

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