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

Note 1 — The Wicked Elder Brother

H. (Henry) Parker translation

That girl having gone rubbing her two legs, when she was taking out the paddy the heat of the fire on the hearth struck her two legs, and the castor-oil, having become warm, descends down her two legs. Then that woman, having been combing and combing the man’s head, says at the hand of the man, “There! You say it is in your mind to call your younger sister [to be your wife]. Look there, at the matter from her legs; her legs are ulcerated.”1

Explore with AITake your curiosity a little further.

Reading settings