For a Were-Tiger story the reader is referred to Clifford’s In Court and
Kampong, pp. 66–77.
The idea is traceable, with a difference, as far back as A.D. 1416: a Chinese
account of Malacca (in the Ying-yai Shêng-lan) relates, inter alia—“Sometimes
there is a kind of tiger which assumes a human shape, comes to the town, and
goes among the people; when it is recognised it is caught and killed.”
The Deer