OR YAKSEYO. 



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result, which is invariably the same in the case of every pilgrim to 

 the temple. We know 30 or 40 women who have made this pil- 

 grimage, only two of whom have ever again shown any symp- 

 toms of the return of demon possession. It is said that some 30 

 or 40 years ago, especially during the time of the Kandyan Kings, 

 four bundles of canes were left at the temple by the Capua every 

 evening before he returned home; that during the night loud shouts 

 and cries and wailing were heard proceeding from the temple, and 

 that the next morning, instead of bundles of canes, there were only 

 small bits of them found dispersed here and there in the premises, 

 as if the canes had been broken in flogging disobedient demons. 



