A man was friends with a tiger. Once they were walking together and they saw a drawing of a man who had thrown a tiger to the ground. "Look," the man remarked, "how the human defeated the tiger."

Tiger replied: "A human painted that. If it had been painted by a tiger, it would have been the other way round."

Märchen aus Afghanistan, Aus: M. Lorenz, Der Zauberbrunnen, Leipzig 1985, englische Fassung Lysander Jaenike © Mutabor Märchenstiftung