Thursday, February 21, 2019

Reading Notes: The Tiger's Bride, Part B


·      First observation: of all the things she could offer someone for assistance, like money for example, why would she offer her daughter for marriage
·      A tiger appeared and pretty much asked for confirmation that she would really give her daughter
o   Animals can understand human speech in this story
·      The tiger and daughter were married two or three days later
o   This time the daughter is portrayed as unhappy and cries often
·      After arriving at their new home (a cave), the tiger leaves to collect his friends for a large feast, and the girl stays behind to cook said big feast
o   The cunning girl catches a random cat and hangs it over the fire so that the blood drips and makes a sizzling sound over the pan on the fire
·      The girl runs home and climbs a tree and sings a song
·      The tiger returns to the cave with his friends and mistakenly thinks that the girl is still cooking
o   He goes to check on her and discovers that she isn’t actually there
·      All of his friends beat him up because they are angry that they didn’t get a feast
o   They didn’t bother to console their friend 

 Sumatran Tiger. Source: Bernard Spragg.


Bibliography: This story is called "The Tiger's Bride" and can be found here. Story source: Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas (1909).

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