A tiger found an abandoned baby and raised him.
When he was grown, he said, "Father, I need a wife."
The tiger caught a woman for him but nibbled her ear.
"No!" he protested. "I want a whole woman!"
The tiger couldn't help himself: he nibbled every woman he found.
Finally, he succeeded: he brought home a woman untouched.
As she prepared the wedding feast, however, she nicked her finger.
Smelling blood, the tiger pounced, but the man stabbed and killed him.
Then he took his bride back home.
"You're alive!" shouted her happy parents, and the whole village celebrated.
Inspired by: "The Tiger's Adopted Son" in Folktales from India by A. K. Ramanujan, 1991.
Notes: You can read about the Didayi people of Odisha in eastern India at Wikipedia.
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