Category: Sri Lankan Mythology

Kola Sanni Yakka ALSO KNOWN AS: Kola Sanniya ORIGIN: Sri Lanka Kola Sanni Yakka is the chief of the eighteen disease-causing Sanni Yakka spirits. He…

Sanni Yakka ORIGIN: Sri Lanka The Sanni Yakka are pre-Buddhist spirits from Sri Lanka. They were vanquished and banished by Buddha so that they are…

Pattini ALSO KNOWN AS: Patni; Kannaki Amman Pattini, currently the most prominent, widely venerated female spirit in Sri Lanka, presides over marriage, chastity, and fidelity.…

Kalu Kumara : The Black Prince Kalu Kumara is a Demonic Eros; a disease Demon whose favourite target is young girls on the threshold of…