The video comes out on 28 October 2026.
The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal
Tonight, the caravan stops in India.
A Brahmin lets a tiger out of its cage, the tiger wants to eat him, and only a clever jackal can settle the case.
About the tale
Flora Annie Steel heard this tale from a village boy of the Jatt farming caste in the Gujranwala district of the Punjab (today in Pakistan); it was also heard in the Firozpur and Lahore districts. The journal “Indian Antiquary” printed it in 1883, and in 1894 it went into her book “Tales of the Punjab”, illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, the father of Rudyard Kipling. Nineteenth-century scholars gathered about a hundred versions of the story, from India to Europe. In a twelfth-century Latin book by Petrus Alphonsi the judge is a fox, and in a Russian tale from Afanasyev’s collection an old mare, an old dog and a fox are asked to judge.
