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VARNISH

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1932.

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TERROR OF THE ́“WERE-TIGER”

MAN-EATER IN A HUMAN FORM

STORY OF MALAY LEGEND

A report has been issued show- Ing that 85 persons were killed by tigora during 1931 in the State of Johoro, but In the opinion of ex- perts the toll of panic and alarm exacted by the depredations of flesh-and-blood tigers, is as thing compared with that due to the continued survival, in spite of all civilising Influences, of the legend of the "wore-tiger."

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An estimate of the horror and suspicion directly attributable to this belief is given by Mr. Hubert Banner, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and author of a number of books dealing with the Malny Peninsula.

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"I have talked," he said, "with university-educated natives from whom nothing could eradicate their belief In the 'wore-tiger.' Thore is fear in the villages and a simple coincidence may convict a man in the eyes of his fellows of the heinous offence of being a tiger in human form.

"There is a true story of a man solling brass-ware in the State of Pahang, who had the misfortune to come from Korinchi in Sumatra, the accepted centre of the race ¦ of 'were-tigers,' As he drew noor the village of Bentong, he was overtaken by darkness and being

| attacked by a tiger took refuge in a tiger-trap, the only safe place he could find.

Speared in A Trap.

"All night the tiger prowled out- nide, and in the morning the vil- lagers came to inspect their trap. Ile grouted them joyfully, but the headman Indicated the footprints of the tiger around the trap, and pointed out that there were no marks of human feet. The tiger and obliterated them.

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"He was accused of being the tiger, and the headman would take no chances. least of all when the man, to show his identity, sald

that he came from Korinchi. Ho

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was spenred by the villagers as he called 'somersault tigers' from the various local rituals by which he earthenware pot, stood in the trap, and they went belief that the creature turns from clears himself. In Perak, for ex- home convinced that they had kill-man into tiger by somersaulting in ample, the witch-doctor will in position when the witch-doctor ed the tiger which had been one particular bewitched spot to sprinkle the man's head with returns he will be released.

molesting their village.

which he must always return. "In Malay the natives have no word for 'were-tigers. They pro- fer not to talk about them. But being a

"When a man is auspected of

"were-tiger' there In the Dutch East Indies they are i

"If the man's hair is found still

But mixture of sacred herbs, and will if his hair should have fallen outi then retire to perform in another under the influence of the herbs ho place a ritual which culminates in will be convicted beyond quea- are the ceremonial shaving' of an ition."

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