Then the Gamarāla having awoke, at the time when he looked on the platform he saw that a Jackal was [there]. Thereupon, having beaten the Jackal he killed it outright.
Washerman. North-western Province.
In the Totā Kahānī (Small), p. 221, after an ass and a stag which were friends had feasted one night in a garden, the ass became exhilarated and suggested that they should sing a song together. The stag endeavoured to prevent this, but the ass would not listen to it, and began to bray, on which the gardener came with some men, and caught and crucified both the animals.
In Folk-Tales from Tibet (O’Connor), p. 64, a hare and a fox induced a wolf to leave a dead horse on which it was feeding, and to accompany them to a house where there was a wedding feast, at which they could obtain plenty to eat and drink. They got through a window into the larder, and after feasting abundantly decided, at the hare’s suggestion, to carry away other provisions, the hare some cheese, the fox a fowl, and the wolf a jar of wine through the handle of which he put his head. Then the hare proposed a song before they started, and after some persuasion the wolf began to sing. When the people heard it they rushed to the larder. The hare and fox jumped through the window, but the wolf was stopped by the jar of wine, and was killed by the men.
In A. von Schiefner’s Tibetan Tales (Ralston), p. 323, an ass joined a bull which was accustomed to break through a fence and feed in the evening in the King’s bean-field. After eating, the ass suggested that it should sing; the bull told it to wait until he had gone and then do as it pleased. When it began to bray it was seized, its ears were cut off, a pestle was fastened to its neck, and it was set free. The same story is given in Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes), vol. ii, p. 374.
In the former work, p. 337, and in the latter one, vol. ii, p. 417, it is stated with reference to the jackal’s uncontrollable desire to howl, “it is according to the nature of things that jackals, if they hear a jackal howl without howling themselves, lose their hair.”
[1] Wal-bowā, a domestic cat that has become wild, or the descendant of such a cat. [↑]
[2] After the manner of the Muhammadans, who chant prayers in the evening after sunset, and later on in the night. [↑]