demon-priest

Updated: May 18, 2025

A few years ago, the capua, or demon-priest of a "dewale," at Oggalbodda, a village near Caltura, when suffering under small-pox, was devoured by a cheetah, and his fate was regarded by those of an opposite faith as a special judgment from heaven.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon