Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1910 — Tigers in India. [ARTICLE]

Tigers in India.

In India the traditions of folklore are numerous and strange. Among those pertaining to the tiger the following are the most peculiar: The uneducated Hindoo (and he is in the great majority! believes that the ghost of a man killed by a tiger rides on the head of the beast that slew him to warn him of danger and to guide him to new victims.- It is declared that God provides for the tiger’s dally wants to the' amount of 1 rupee a day—.that Is to say, if the tiger kills a calf worth 6 rupees he will not be allowed another victim for five days. Eating the flesh of a tiger is supposed to give one great cou/age and alertness, but the whiskers must first be singed off the beast or his spirit will haunt the man who fed off him, and he Is likely to be turned into a tiger in the next world. The following incident really occurred In a small Indian village in the interior: One of the villagers was unfortunately killed by a tiger. The police Investigated the accidental death and rendered this verdict: "Pandu died of a tiger eating him. There was no other cause of death. Nothing was left of him save his bones and some fingers, which probably belonged to either the right or left hand.”—Washington Star.