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

Note 1 — The Thief and the Rākshasas

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After he died, the Hūniyan Yakā1 began to come to the house [visiting the widow in the disguise of a man]. When he was coming, the woman’s father having seen him went into the house to seize him. Having gone [there], when he looked there was not a Yakā. After that, the man having gone away went to sleep. Then the Hūniyan Yakā having gone to that man’s village, said, “Don’t come to look at me.”

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