At the time when [the Yaka] said, "Standing there, beat the [airs
of] devil-dances, and the new ones that thou knowest," he unfastened
the tom-tom, and tying it (i.e., slinging it from his neck), he beat
various dances.
The Yakshaya being pleased at it, said thus, "Do thou look every day
in the house in which are the looms. [243] Don't tell anyone [about]
the things that I give," he said.
Beginning from that day, having gone into the house in which are
the looms, at the time when he looked, raw-rice, and pulse (mun),
and ash-plantains, and betel, and areka-nuts, and various things were
there. Every day those said things were there.
At the time when he is bringing them, his wife said, "Whence are
these?" Every day she plagued him, and being unable to escape from
it he told the woman.
On the following day after the day on which he told her, at the time
when he looked he had filled the looms with excrement.
North-western Province.
In The Indian Antiquary, vol. i, p. 143, Mr. W. C. Benett gave an
Oudh story in which Bhawan Misr, a wrestler who had obtained gifts
from a demon, lost them by revealing the secret to his wife.