On the following day morning he came back, and tied it on the woman’s arm. At the very instant, the woman, quickly having arisen, does her work. While she was thus, the woman says, “Having hastened quickly, you must distribute [betel].”[2]
Afterwards, the man also having said, “It is good,” he gave betel to Kaḍawara Vedās[3] who dance well, and said, “Come on such and such a day.” He collected for it the articles to be expended, and caused arrack (spirit distilled from palm-juice) to be brought, and prepared all.
On the Kaḍawara day the men came, and having eaten and drunk, and dressed themselves [in their dancing costume and ornaments], as they were descending [from the raised veranda] into the open space in front of the house, this woman quickly took out the mat also, and stretching out her two feet at the doorway, sat down on it, (ready for the ceremony, which would be performed in front of her).
Then this man having come speedily, bringing the rice pestle, beat that woman with the pestle and put her in the house. Having shut the door and locked it, and come outside, as he was coming out the Kaḍawara Vedās, becoming afraid, prepared to run away, saying, “Perhaps this man is a mad-man.”
Then this man said, “Don’t you run away. Dance well. There is arrack; drink as much as you want.”
Afterwards, they having drunk and drunk and danced until it became light, in the morning the man cooked abundantly, and gave the Kaḍawara Vedās to eat, and having given them presents sent them away.
[1] Illness caused by one of the demons called Kaḍawara Dēvatāwā. [↑]
[2] Betel is presented to devil-dancers when inviting them to come for a demon ceremony. [↑]