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  • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage, which contains a little green parrot; - on the life of the parrot depends my life; - and if the parrot is killed I must die.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage, which contains a little green parrot; —on the life of the parrot depends my life; —and if the parrot is killed I must die.

    Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales 1922

  • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage, which contains a little green parrot; -- on the life of the parrot depends my life; -- and if the parrot is killed I must die.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage which contains a little green parrot; on the life of the parrot depends my life; and if the parrot is killed I must die.

    Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

  • At this the Prince was very glad, and the two eaglets crossed their wings, on which he mounted; and they carried him far, far away over the thick jungles, until he came to the place where grew the circle of palm trees, in the midst of which stood the six chattees full of water.

    Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

  • The modern town consists of the bungalows of the European officials, each surrounded with its own garden; two or three streets inhabited by Dutch descendants and by Moors; and a native bazaar, with the ordinary array of rice and curry stuffs and cooking chattees of brass or burnt clay.

    Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

  • In the midst of the jungle grows a circle of palm trees, and in the centre of the circle stand six chattees full of water, piled one above another: below the sixth chattee is a small cage, which contains a little green parrot; — on the life of the parrot depends my life; — and if the parrot is killed I must die.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • All round the trees were the genii fast asleep; nevertheless, there were such countless thousands of them, that it would have been quite impossible for any one to walk through their ranks to the place; down swooped the strong-winged eaglets -- down jumped the Prince; in an instant he had overthrown the six chattees full of water, and seized the little green parrot, which he rolled up in his cloak; while, as he mounted again into the air, all the genii below awoke, and finding their treasure gone, set up a wild and melancholy howl.

    Indian Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

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