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

Note 2 — The Wicked Elder Brother

H. (Henry) Parker translation

At the time when the man is not at home, having cut a tunnel from the woman’s house to the widow woman’s house, and from the woman’s house to the widow woman’s house having drawn a silver chain and an iron chain, she said at the hand of the widow woman, “If there be a sorrow shake the iron chain; if there be a pleasure shake the silver chain.”2 Having said it the woman came home.

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