Reading Notes: Middle Eastern and Indian, Reading A
1. Santal Folklore: The Tiger's Bride by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909).
A woman, who had been cutting grass, eventually collected so much grass that it fell on her and left her unable to move. In calling for help, she said she would promise to marry her daughter off to whoever would help her. A tiger appeared to help her, and as she had promised, later married her daughter. When the tiger and daughter arrived back to his cave, he told her to cook a feast while he went off to invite his friends. The daughter tricked the tiger into thinking she was cooking by hanging a dead cat over the fire, so that the blood made a sizzling sound, and she ran away back home. She climbed a tree near her mother's house and sang a sad song. When the tiger returned to their home wit his friends, they found out that she had ran away. His friends, feeling cheated out of a feast, were angry and beat the tiger until he ran away. The daughter stayed in the trees from then on, singing her sad song.
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909).
A woman, who had been cutting grass, eventually collected so much grass that it fell on her and left her unable to move. In calling for help, she said she would promise to marry her daughter off to whoever would help her. A tiger appeared to help her, and as she had promised, later married her daughter. When the tiger and daughter arrived back to his cave, he told her to cook a feast while he went off to invite his friends. The daughter tricked the tiger into thinking she was cooking by hanging a dead cat over the fire, so that the blood made a sizzling sound, and she ran away back home. She climbed a tree near her mother's house and sang a sad song. When the tiger returned to their home wit his friends, they found out that she had ran away. His friends, feeling cheated out of a feast, were angry and beat the tiger until he ran away. The daughter stayed in the trees from then on, singing her sad song.
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Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909).
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