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| Tiger Sleeping: Pixabay |
Tigers and cats use to work together and be friends, would hunt together- Lacked fire to cook a deer, told cat to go and beg for light
- Went to village to get fire brand, but there was some warm milk and the cat took interest
- Decided to drink all the milk before he would return
- In order to drink milk had to stand of fire place, but burned feet, waited for fire to go out to drink, and then took a piece back with him
- Tigers were impatient and ate the deer raw
- Tigers were so upset with cat, threatened to eat the cat too
- In fear the cat ran back to the village, dogs barked and scared the tigers, but the cat was saved
- Tigers thought the dog tails were nooses
- Went back to village and couldn't find the cat, instead ended up eating a dog
- From then tigers and leopards ate dogs
Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909)
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| Elephants and Ants: dailymail.co.uk |
- Black and red ant were burrowing in the ground, elephant said he would step on their masterpiece
- The two agreed to a race to see who was surpreme
- Ants tricked the elephant
- The ants never moved, but since there is a numerous amounts of them, when the elephant looked down he thought he saw the ants he was racing
- Elephant ran itself into exhaustion
Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909)
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| Baby Foxes: Thinglink |
- Foxes and their 5 little ones lived in a hole, and the parents went out each night for scrapes of food
- Each night the two would ask how much wit the other one had
- As they left from scrapes one night, the two ran into a tiger
- Wife Fox with respect told the tiger the two were in a dispute
- The tiger agreed not to eat them, but would help decide the dispute
- Although husband fox said he had all the wit, was in fear of the tiger, and the wife fox stood up to the tiger
- How to split the baby foxes, 3-2 or 2-3
- They brought the tiger back to the hole, Mr.Fox went into it immediately toward the baby foxes, but Mrs. Fox kept her eyes on the Tiger as she went in
- Then Mrs. Tiger told him he could go now
- Tiger was upset and tried to fit into the whole to eat them, but couldn't, so Mrs. Fox fooled the Tiger with her wit
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