Note 347 — Chapter XVII
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According to the Malays’ anthropomorphic ideas concerning the tiger, “the tiger-folk … have a town of their own, where they live in houses, and act in every respect like human beings” (Skeat, Malay Magic, p. 157). In Perak tigers with human souls live in similar villages (Sir W. E. Maxwell, J.R.A.S., No. vii. p. 22). The natives of Korinchi in Sumatra are credited with the power to assume tiger form at will (Sir H. Clifford, In Court of Kampong, pp. 65-6).