
The Kadambawa Men And The Hares
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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 Hares: collective foolishness versus timid animals
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The Kadambawa Men And The Hares
The Kadambawa men having gone to set nets, a great many hares were caught in the nets. Afterwards the men, having seized the hares, doubled up the hind legs of the hares at the joints, and the fore-legs at the joints, and threw them on the ground, in order to make a heap of them in one place afterwards. Then all the hares ran away into the jungle.
After all the hares in the nets had been finished, when they looked for the dead hares there was not even one hare. Then the men were astonished at the coming to life of the hares which they had killed, saying, "How thoroughly we killed the hares!" After having become fixed like stone [with astonishment] until nightfall, they went in the evening to their houses.
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