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

Note 2 — The Story of a King and a Prince

H. (Henry) Parker translation

Then the woman says, “Anē! Son, at that house an extremely wicked2 woman gambles. Should anyone go to gamble she gives him golden chairs into which she puts [magical] life, to sit upon. She has put [magical] life into the lamp also. [When gambling], the woman is sitting upon the silver chair,” she said.

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