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Overview

A girl pursuing a windblown roll of cotton finds a tied dog that asks her to move it into the shade. It promises a haunch of bull meat when she returns, and has the reward tied up ready after her visit to a king. Another girl later imitates the journey but refuses the same request. The dog’s reward is separate from the king’s boxes of wealth and destructive snakes; the narrative does not make it the creator or keeper of those boxes. Its addresses to the girls as sisters do not establish a literal family relationship. Parker attributes the telling to a Roḍiyā narrator of the North-western Province, without an individual name.

Speaking tied dog who promises and provides a reward for shadeRoḍiyā narrator attribution
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Origins & earliest records

Sri Lankan narratives collected and translated by H. Parker

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Records & interpretation

Complete tale and all its printed variants/comparative notes read; relevant introduction passages on collection and translation directly read.

Selected bibliography

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    Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume I

    H. Parker (collector and translator) · 1910

    No. 69, The Roll of Cotton, pp. 364–366 and comparison

Family & connections

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume I

Volume I; No. 69. No. 69, The Roll of Cotton, pp. 364–366 and comparison

Whole tale, comparisons and footnotes read. Speaking animal’s acts distinguished from those of human king/farmer; address forms not assumed genealogy. Main narrative and journal variant kept separate.

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References

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  1. Historical collected oral narrative translationParker, Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon I — No. 69, The Roll of Cotton, pp. 364–366 and comparisonResearch access: 2026-10-05

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