In Old Deccan Days (Frere), p. 303, a pandit frightened a demon in this manner, by scolding a wrestler who brought for dinner an apparent goat which the pandit recognised as a demon.
In Wide-Awake Stories (Steel and Temple), p. 132 ff.—Tales of the Punjab, p. 123 ff.—a farmer’s wife frightened a tiger that was going to eat a cow. A jackal persuaded it to return, their tails being tied together. On the tiger’s running off again, the jackal was jolted to death.
In The Indian Antiquary, vol. iv, p. 257, there is a Santal story by Rev. E. T. Cole, of a tiger which was frightened by two brothers. The three sat round a fire and asked riddles. The tiger’s was, “One I will eat for breakfast, and another like it for supper.” The men expressed their inability to guess the answer, and their riddle was, “One will twist the tail, the other will wring the ear.” When the tiger was escaping, they held the tail till it came off.
In Totā Kahānī (Small), p. 98, a lynx took possession of a tiger’s cave, and behaved like the mouse-deer when the tiger came up. When the tiger returned with a monkey, the lynx frightened it like the mouse-deer, by telling its young ones that a monkey friend had sworn to bring a tiger that day. On hearing this, the tiger killed the monkey, and fled.
No. 32
The Crocodile’s Wedding
In a certain country there is a Crocodile in the river, it is said. On the high ground on the other bank there was a dead Elephant. A Jackal of the high ground on this side came to the river bank, and on his saying “Friend,” the Crocodile rose to the surface.
Then the Jackal said, “Now then, how are you getting on, living in that [solitary] way? I could find a wife for you, but to fetch you a mate I have no means of going over to the land on that bank.”
The Crocodile said, “Anē! Friend, if you would become of assistance to me in that way can’t I put you on the other bank?”