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

Note 4 — The Gamarāla who ate Black Fowls’ Flesh and Hīn-aeṭi Rice

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Because on account of the dead man there was not any person to lament, having employed women for hire he caused them to lament. At this time one woman lamented: “First, it is my misfortune; next to that, father’s misfortune; and after that the salt dealer’s misfortune.”4 At the time when they asked, “What is that?” when she related the whole account for her punishment they ordered her to be killed.

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