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Show Tha HarU Daneera of Ceylon. A curious mask used by tho devil dancers of Ceylon la supposed to bo tho portrait of a devil, Calloo Cooraare. It la painful to have to record that the Cingalese, Instead of "abjuring the dovll and all hla works," aa thoy ought, actually worship Cslloo-Coo-mar. If anybody la 111 tbe prleata of the devil, wearing his mask, which Is mado ot wood, painted In varloua colors, col-ors, and haa a tusk sticking out ot each tide of the horribly grinning disks at each aide, and three cobra capellaa on the top, come and perform the devil's own dance An altar, decorated dec-orated with garlands, la erected, an tbe sacrifice, usually a cock. It offered on It. |