Ebook: Tracking the weretiger: supernatural man-eaters of India, China and southeast Asia

A colonial menace : jungle-wallahs and man-eaters -- People and tigers : together in life and death -- Killers and killed : propitiation and appeasement -- Fithting back : jungle-wallahs to the rescue -- Shapeshifters all : like weretiger, like werewolf -- Tigermen in Malaya : negritos and Jambi men accused -- Beast people : weretigers and wereleopards in India -- Beast master : the withe Sadhu and the ultimate terror.;"Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style"--Provided by publisher.