Tracking the Weretiger: Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style.

Fundamental to the book is the evocation of a long-vanished world. When a man-eater struck in colonial times, people typically said it was a dem...