Again the Jackals at midnight having come into the rice field,
howled. Thereupon the Jackal [said], "Preceptor, I must bring to
remembrance my religion; I cannot endure it."
When [the Cat] was saying, "The top of thy head will be split,"
he howled, "Hokkiya!"
Then the Gamarala having awoke, at the time when he looked on the
platform he saw that a Jackal was [there]. Thereupon, having beaten
the Jackal he killed it outright.
Washerman. North-western Province.
In the Tota Kahani (Small), p. 221, after an ass and a stag which
were friends had feasted one night in a garden, the ass became
exhilarated and suggested that they should sing a song together. The
stag endeavoured to prevent this, but the ass would not listen to
it, and began to bray, on which the gardener came with some men,
and caught and crucified both the animals.
In Folk-Tales from Tibet (O'Connor), p. 64, a hare and a fox induced a
wolf to leave a dead horse on which it was feeding, and to accompany
them to a house where there was a wedding feast, at which they could
obtain plenty to eat and drink. They got through a window into
the larder, and after feasting abundantly decided, at the hare's
suggestion, to carry away other provisions, the hare some cheese, the
fox a fowl, and the wolf a jar of wine through the handle of which he
put his head. Then the hare proposed a song before they started, and
after some persuasion the wolf began to sing. When the people heard it
they rushed to the larder. The hare and fox jumped through the window,
but the wolf was stopped by the jar of wine, and was killed by the men.
In A. von Schiefner's Tibetan Tales (Ralston), p. 323, an ass joined
a bull which was accustomed to break through a fence and feed in the
evening in the King's bean-field. After eating, the ass suggested that
it should sing; the bull told it to wait until he had gone and then
do as it pleased. When it began to bray it was seized, its ears were
cut off, a pestle was fastened to its neck, and it was set free. The
same story is given in Cinq Cents Contes et Apologues (Chavannes),
vol. ii, p. 374.
In the former work, p. 337, and in the latter one, vol. ii, p. 417,
it is stated with reference to the jackal's uncontrollable desire to
howl, "it is according to the nature of things that jackals, if they
hear a jackal howl without howling themselves, lose their hair."