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BOOK NOTICE: The Zeylonese Treasure Book of Myth, Mystery and Mystique Published by Neptune Publications, pages 807 pp, Price Rs.3800. Available at Barefoot Bookshop. This pioneering work covers a hundred oddities, curiosities and mysteries of Sri Lanka that have for long defied explanation.  Our island is, after all, home to some of the weirdest lore and legends handed down the generations that speak of many strange things. These stories coming down to us from hoary antiquity speak of lost cities, vanished peoples, extinct creatures, strange ruins, weird prophecies, eerie happenings, bizarre visitations, mysterious deaths, unexplained sicknesses and unspeakable horrors among other things. This book covers many such mysteries from the whereabouts of Ravana’s kingdom, the legendary Naga race and a missing race of dwarfs to man-eating ogres, cannibalistic women, feral children living in the wild, water sprites, female spectres, demons scared of iron, human sacrifices, lost gold mines, hidden redoubts, buried ...