After that, the Yaksa Vedarāla and those two men asked about the circumstances that had occurred. The man said, “A Yakā having come, seizing me pressed against me for me to roll over on to the ground. What of that? I did not fall [on account of it]. After you two fired, indeed, I fell. Then the Yakā bounded off, and went away. Well, I don’t know anything after that. Whether you came and lifted me up, or what, I do not know.”
The man having recovered from that, again the Yakā came, and having possessed the man he began to have the powers conferred by “possession.”[4] Afterwards that Yaksa Vedarāla having come again, and given the Yakā many offerings placed on frames (dola piḍēni), the Yakā went out of the way. The man remained very well [afterwards].
[1] The word used indicates the use of guns, and not bows and arrows. [↑]
[2] A Vedarāla (medical practitioner) or another man who knows the spells and magical practices which have power over demons. [↑]
[4] Ē minihāṭa waehilā, māyan wenḍa paṭangattā. [↑]