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The Kadambawa Men And The Bush

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Henry Parker
Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume 1
Luzac And Co., London
1910
Sri Lanka
The Kadambawa Men And The Bush: panic, misreading, communal foolishness
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The Kadambawa Men And The Bush

As the Kadambawa men were going away with some drums one night, to attend a devil-dance, they met with a Wara bush on the path, which looked like an elephant. The men became afraid, thinking, "Maybe an elephant has come onto the path." At the shaking of the leaves of the Wara bush they said, "He is shaking his ears."

Being afraid to go past the elephant, they beat the drums until it became light, to frighten the Wara bush. When they looked after it became light, it was not an elephant; it was a Wara tree. After that, they came back to their village. So they had neither the devil-dance nor went to sleep.

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