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Overview

The girl’s younger brother retrieves her stolen eyes from a shelf and a salt pot, follows a dog to her forest prison, frees and bathes her, then asks that the eyes be created afresh if they truly belong to his sister. The restoration occurs. Later he repeatedly addresses a golden Kaekiri fruit, calling her from an ant-hill in human form to tend her crying child, although she has been transformed into a cobra. The account does not explain how he acquired this effective speech or supply a personal name; the magical fruit is an addressed object, not a speaking creature.

Boy whose appeals renew his sister’s eyes and summon her from snake formVersion-specific Sinhalese collected narrative
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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

Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.

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    Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume I

    H. Parker (collector and translator) · 1910

    No. 13, The Golden Kaekiri Fruit, pp. 130–133

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Primary records and illustrations

Direct primary record

Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon, Volume I

Volume I. No. 13, The Golden Kaekiri Fruit, pp. 130–133

Complete tale and all printed notes read. Restored eyes, intermittent human/cobra form, divided-body ending, named daughter and rat tunnel are kept in their respective narratives. No invented original script or personal name for unnamed siblings.

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References

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  1. Historical collected oral narrative translationParker, Village Folk-Tales of Ceylon I — No. 13, The Golden Kaekiri Fruit, pp. 130–133Research access: 2026-10-05

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