Stories about Tigers

You will find 35 stories about tigers collected here, as found in books of folktales and legends from India and Asia. I've divided the stories into collections that will each take less than an hour to read.

• Part A: Stories from India. You will find the following stories here: Uncle Tiger — The Tiger's Foster Child — The Tiger and the Hare — The Tiger and the Foolish Donkey — The Goats, the Tiger, and the Monkey — The Brahmin Girl who Married a Tiger.

• Part B: More Stories from India. You will find the following stories here: The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal — Ingratitude — The Tiger's Bride — Monkey, Tiger, and Princess — The Kid and the Tiger — The Lady Tiger-Slayer — The Barber and the Tigers — The Magic Bedstead

• Part C: Santal Stories from India. You will find the following stories here: The Man-Tiger — The Tigers and the Cat — A Fox, His Wife, and a Tiger — The Story of a Simpleton — The Ungrateful Tiger — The Tiger and Ulta's Mother — Kara and Guja

• Part D: India and Beyond. You will find the following stories here: How the Hare Deceived the Tiger — The Tiger's Mistake — The Tiger and the Shadow — The Tiger and the Monkeys — How the Tiger Got His Strength — How the Cat Came to Live with Man — The Hungry Tigress.

• Part E: Asian Tigers. You will find the following stories here: The Tiger of Chao-Cheng — The Man who Loved Money — The Tiger and the Man — The Tiger and the Frog — The Unmannerly Tiger — The Jackals and the Tiger — The Dogs and the Tiger

USING DIIGO

If you are interested in exploring interconnected motifs, you can also browse the Tiger Stories at Diigo. You can use the tags to look for stories of the Tiger Tricked, for example, or stories that have a Tiger and a Cat, or tiger stories that have some kind of Aetiology (including how the tiger got its stripes).

All the motif tags are prefixed with sb: and you can use the basic Boolean operators to do the search. Don't forget to add the hashtag before the tag so that Diigo knows you are searching on tags. Here, for example is a search for tiger stories from Tibet: #sb:tiger AND #sb:tibet. Here is a search for tiger stories that are not from India: #sb:tiger NOT #sb:india.

Image credit: Tiger photo by Max and Dee Bernt at Flickr. For more about this project, see My Sites. Created by Laura Gibbs. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).