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Show Hindoo Beliefs Strange. The uneducated Hindoo (and he la in the great majority) believes that the ghost of a man killed by a tiger rides on the head of the beast that slew him, to warn him of danger and to guide him to new victims. It is declared de-clared that God provides for the tiger's daily wants to the amount of one rupee a day; that is to say, if the tiger kills a calf worth six rupees he will not be allowed another victim for five days. Eating the flesh of a tiger is supposed sup-posed to give one great courage and alertness, but the whiskers must first be singed off the beast or his spirit will haunt the man who fed off him and he is likely to be turned into a tiger in the next world. In a small Indian village in the in terior a villager was killed by a tiger. The police investigated the accidental death and rendered the verdict: "Pandu died of a tiger eating him; there was no other cause of death. Nothing was left of him save hit-bones hit-bones and some fingers, which prob ably belonged to either the right oi left hand." |