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

Note 1 — The Yakā of the Akaraganē Jungle

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Afterwards this man having gone to the watch-hut and set fire to the watch-hut, came back, and said at the hand of his wife, “You say, ‘Our man, having been burnt at the watch-hut, died.’ ”1 Furthermore he said, “Every day when I say ‘Hū,’ near the stile of the rice field, put a leaf-cup of cooked rice for me”; having said it the man went into the jungle.

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