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

Note 3 — The Rākshasa-eating Prākshasa1

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Just as he is going there, the Rākshasa having landed on the island to seize and eat human bodies, when he is coming looking and looking at the whole of the houses, he saw this Four-cubits, the little lass,3 and having sprung into the house, lifted her up and ran away.

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