Author: HAZEWINKEL, J.C.,
Title: De Tijger in het Volksgeloof. [Eerste druk; First edition].
Description: Whittier, [Den Haag], American Tong-Tong, [..]., 1963. Small stout 8°, Original limp wrappers, covertitle in bold type with a coloured photograph of a tiger at tail. Coverdesign by Rogier Boon. 219pp. Captioned monochrome illustrations on 16 plates of which original field photos, text-ills. of which full-p. after drawings by Rogier Boon, bibliography, table of contens, publ. advert. on lower outer cover. BUUR, PD., 1977. Dutch language investigation into the indonesianTiger present in local folk belief and magic, e.g.: concious and sub-concious Lycanthropy, nagualism, metempsychotism, transmigration of a human soul into a tiger vice/versa, magic human power over tigers, the tiger in Islamic belief, substitues for the name Tiger (Matjan), pp. 7-125 followed by 4 authentic hunting the Tiger stories, of which one deals with a hunt for a Man-eating tiger. Few literature available on the topic. Pocket edition (as orig. publ.). Fine copy

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