Sinhala Folk Tales
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Introduction
Villagers, who engage in the agricultural activities, work together. At the special farming events such as harvesting, preparation of paddy fields, they called for friends, neighbors, and relatives. On the other hand, they prefer to work with others more over at the social events. Some people of the gathering are foolish. Some are clever.
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Some make jokes in order to avoid stress, hardness of the work. They talk joyful stories each other. Actually, those stories are only for joyful not for harmful to others. This page displays a collection of such stories in Sinhala language.
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Folk tales associated with village farming community in Sri Lanka (in Sinhala)>>