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Third Sanni

Next the old man Kendi Paliya, appears carrying a clay pot with the purifying water used earlier to cleanse the area and the Patient. He stumbles around the Performance Area leaning on his stick. From time to time he spits into the pot and pretends to drink the contents. He converses with the Drummer who asks him what he is doing. Eventually he says that the Patient will be cured. Then he retreats into the Demon Palace first leaving the pot with the Patient.  

Kendi Paliya - the old man- enters with his clay pot

He puts it down

Then stumbles around the Performance Area

The Drummer asks him what he is doing and he grumbles away to the amusement of the Audience,

From time to time he spits into the pot and even “drinks” the contents

Then he has more interchange with the Drummer and more grumbling

He points at the Patient and predicts that they will recover.

Then he departs for the Demon Palace

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