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 contains and controls them. As he theoretically

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 now unable to physically manifest on Earth.

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. Veneration of Pattini dates back to at

Kalu Kumara : The Black Prince Kalu Kumara is a Demonic Eros; a disease Demon whose favourite target is young girls on the threshold of womanhood although he will also strike older