- Lehda is a lame village boy who the other boys pick on
- Leopard and a lizard are playing hide and seek one day
- The leopard sits on the lizard accidentally because he cannot find where he is hiding
- The lizard bites the leopard on the butt and won't let go
- The leopard gets Lehda to help remove the lizard and promises not to eat him
- The leopard told Lehda that if he told anyone about what happened he would eat him
- That night his sister coaxed the story out of him and the leopard heard him tell her, he carried off Lehda in his bed
- Lehda wakes up in the jungle and jumps into a tree to escape, the leopard gets him down by promising not to eat him (lie)
- Lehda agrees to being eaten but request one last chew of tobacco first, as he digs in his bag he convinces the leopard that he has the lizard from yesterday and is going to let him loose
- The leopard runs away
- Lehda befriends the buffalos and becomes their servant
- Lehda sends hairs down the river and a princess requests that her father find this man and until he did she would not eat
- After men had failed a crow ends up being able to lure Lehda to the city
- He marries the princess and returns to care for the buffalo creating a great palace in the jungle
The Tiger's Bride-
- A woman is cutting grass, cuts too much and can't carry the load.
- She asks for help and when no one responds promises her daughter's hand to whoever helps
- A tiger comes to help as long as he actually gets her daughter
- 3 days later the two are married and head to the tiger's home
- The tiger tells he to cook a feast for him and his friends, she acts like she is cooking buts sneaks back to her mothers house and climbs a large tree
- The tiger and his friends grow impatient and they realize she isn't there
- The friends attack the tiger until he runs away and is never seen again
The Killing of the Tiger-
- At one time all animals and men could communicate, during that time there was a man-eating tiger
- The tiger fed upon men crossing a bridge into the city
- Finally everyone got together requesting that the Raja gather his soldiers to kill the tiger
- He promises half his kingdom to whoever can kill the beast
- A shikari (hunter) offers to go and kill the tiger, the Raja assumes he will be killed and promises him the offer
- The shikari hides in a tree by the bridge for the night seeing the tiger the next morning
- The two begin to talk and the tiger wonders why the man has been looking for him
- The shikari tells the tiger that he has captured 3 of the tigers kind and will show him when he comes down
- He fools the tiger by showing him pictures through a looking glass making it look like he has them captured within
- He told the tiger that if he stopped killing the people on the bridge he would let him go and not trap him within
- The shikari also requested a claw from each foot, the tip of the tiger's ears and tounge
- The tiger agreed
- The shikari presented all of this to the Raja and he got his promised reward
- The tip of the tigers tounge got infected and he died
The Tiger Cub and the Calf-
- A tiger and cow are friends and agree to marry their children
- The tiger has a she-cub and the cow a bull-calf
- The tiger and cow would eat together, drink from a river and then head back to their young
- The tiger always drank upstream from the cow except for one day
- That day she tasted the cows froth and liked it, assuming that her flesh must also taste good, deciding she would eat the cow one day
- The cow told her son what the tiger had in store and left a bowl of milk telling the cow that when it turned red she would have been killed by the tiger
- The mother tiger returned to feed her cub and was covered in blood
- The cub told her to wash herself before she would suckle and while the mother went away the cub and bull ran away together
No comments:
Post a Comment