The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
A Brahman frees a tiger and is threatened in return, until a jackal's apparently foolish questions create a way to reverse the danger.
The story turns on a promise, ingratitude, and the jackal's performance of confusion. By asking for the original situation to be demonstrated again, the jackal changes the balance of power.
Jacobs's 1892 anthology gathers material from multiple South Asian sources. Loreveil therefore attributes this entry to the collection and does not assign a narrower community without stronger source evidence.
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Sources & citations
Jacobs, Joseph, ed. Indian Fairy Tales. London: David Nutt, 1892.
Joseph Jacobs, editor · David Nutt; digital edition by Project Gutenberg · 1892
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