The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

miscellaneous papers, notebooks and letters on Nagas by Ursula Graham Bower, 1937-1947

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were-tigers

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notes

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Zemi

production:

person:	Graham Bower/ Ursula
date:	1937-1946

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private collection

text:

Were-tigers are known by their pug-marks, which have five toes instead of only four. The old men say there is a spring far away to the east, and whoever drinks it turns into a tiger.

text:

Once upon a time a young buck got the worst of it in a quarrel over a girl and out of pique went off to the stream, drank a little, and instantly became a tiger.

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