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

Note 4 — The Queen and the Beggar

H. (Henry) Parker translation

The Queen having come and given the auspicious wish, he forbade the adjuration.4 When forbidding it, having said, “What [sort of] woman art thou also!” he spat in her face. This one having spat went away.

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