The natives of the countries where it resides say that it is able to kill by its kick the jackal that comes to steal its eggs, and that even the hyaena and the leopard are repelled by the gigantic bird.
Even at the present time, the Jackal is extremely plentiful in Palestine; and as the numbers of wild beasts have much decreased in modern days, the animals must have been even more numerous than they are at present.
Crouching together outside the fold, in little knots of six or seven together, they detect the approach of wild animals, and at the first sign of the wolf or the jackal they bark out a defiance, and scare away the invaders.
Hundreds of omens by the manner of their happening may modify actions, as, on what side of the road a woodpecker calls, or in which direction a hyena or jackal crosses the path, how the ground hornbill flies or alights, and the like.
Skulking forms flashed in the grass, and occasionally the pointed ears of a jackal would rise inquiringly.
Mrs. Jackal would have had her husband leave, but he refused; and while they argued the tiger was heard approaching.
Mrs. Jackal explained that her children wanted fresh meat, and Mr. Jackal then told the cubs to wait a little.
By-and-by there came a jackal with his wife and family, house-hunting.
And though the monkey protested that she knew a jackal when she saw one, the tiger could not credit her story.
The tale of the Tiger and the Jackal is a good example.
The monkey hastened to meet him and tell what had happened; but the tiger could not bring himself to believe that a jackal would be so reckless and insolent as to take possession of his house.
Had the visiting clergyman carried his analysis far enough to discover that both men were bigots, he would still have drawn this distinction: the lion and the jackal have the same general motive in life, yet the jackal is hardly a lion.
The kloofs, and veldt, and karri are packed with evil spirits, whose weird revels they no more dare disturb, than would a jackal a lion while he is feeding.
Neither did she think of burying them in the ground, lest they should be dug up by a jackal and exposed to the gaze of people.
The jackal then gravely said, "I will do my best in the matter," and then returned to his own village, after the royal astrologer had fixed an auspicious day for the wedding.
The king and queen, not a little surprised at this recital, took the jackal to task about it.
They said among themselves, "What an uncommon jackalis this!
The ready-witted jackal at once said, "Your Majesty need not be surprised at my august master's soliloquy.
Coming up to the surface they climbed into the boat" 216 "The jackal .
The next morning the jackalstarted for the king's city, which was many miles off.
At the entrance of that tank the jackal laid himself down.
The princess was not a little struck at seeing the jackal lying down at the entrance.
The jackal now appeared on the scene, and saluting the king and queen, said--"Did I not tell you?
There the jackal told his friends, the thousand jackals, to set up a loud howl; at his bidding the thousand crows cawed their loudest; while the hoarse screechings of the thousand paddy-birds furnished a suitable accompaniment.
Last night as I was lying in bed with her, I heard outside the house, towards the river-side, a jackal set up a fearful howl.
The jackalmade his appearance, accompanied by a train of a thousand jackals, a thousand crows, and a thousand paddy-birds.
We ran down and discovered the bay apparently swarming with great sturgeon, salmon and trout, all making for the mouth of Jackal River, that they might ascend it and deposit their spawn among the stones.
Thus their original living place was called Tentholm, the river Jackal River, and the new house in the trees Falconhurst.
The bridge over Jackal River was partly broken down, and the water tanks and pipes all needed repair.
Then up came Jack with Coco, and the gallant little jackal attacked the monster in the rear.
Encouraged by our shouts of approbation, he now boldly ventured into the strong current of Jackal River, and was rapidly carried out to sea.
Jaffa explained that he was comparing me "to the sun for strength and the jackal for cunning".
Some half-jackal half-wolf dogs went yelping away when we disturbed them; nothing else lived.
How he came to be the mummifier of Osiris it would, indeed, be hard to say; probably the association or the jackal with the burial-ground would account for this.
The Cat and the Jackal Another such discussion, which possesses some rather amusing characteristics, is found in a Late Demotic papyrus, and is perhaps tinged with Greek ideas.
He had the head of a jackal and the body of a man, and was evidently symbolical of the animal which prowled about the tombs of the dead.
I was carrying my rifle across the saddle in front of me, without having reloaded it, and on nearing the bush I had marked pulled up my horse and was looking about for a jackal lying dead on the ground.
These were Isis naked with a crown of the pharaohs, the youthful Horns, Anubis with a jackal head, bird-headed Tot with tablets in his hands, and many others.
Then suddenly, as a jackal enters stealthily the den of a lion, the menial sent by Duryodhana entered the palace and stood before high-born Draupadi.
The Brahmans, robed in white, were chanting peacefully their evening mantras, when a jackal howled in the sacrificial chamber.
The beasts of the night come forth; I hear their awesome voices; they tread the forest in glee; the howl of the jackal maketh my heart afraid.
Salvin's account of a tame jackal in `Land and Water,' October, 1869.
Wolves and jackals, when frightened, certainly tuck in their tails; and a tamed jackal has been described as careering round his master in circles and figures of eight, like a dog, with his tail between his legs.
In the case of animals, the jackal and wolf have learnt under confinement to imitate the barking of the dog.
Many particulars are given by Gueldenstadt in his account of the jackal in Nov.
The two quarrelled over the matter, and the bear tried to catch the jackal to eat him, but he managed to escape.
The jackal then went in search of him, and soon found him asleep in the shade of a ridge of a rice field.
The tiger as he ran encountered a jackal who exclaimed, "Ho!
The jackal said, "You will find him over in these rice fields.
Having said this, he placed himself in such a position that when the jackal came out he could sit down on its back.
The noise awoke the sleeper, and seeing the jackal sitting so near to him, he quietly caught him by the tail, and springing on to his feet swung him round and round above his head, and then flung him from him.
The jackal then said, "It is very strange, uncle, that you did not vanquish him.
The jackal then said, "Listen to me, I will put you upon a plan.
So as they walked along they saw a jackaland called to him, "Oh uncle, stand still.
So he sat down with his back towards the sleeping thief, so near that his tail touched his neck, and began to yell as only a hungry jackal can.
The jackal said, "Come along and shew him to me, and I shall soon eat him up.
The jackal turning to the men, said, "What are you staring at?
While it is true the plot is based on a lie, the moral effect is not bad because we recognize Puss as a match-making character similar to the matchmaking Jackal of India; and in love "all is fair.
The Jackaldid as he was bid, and watched the Partridge, who began fluttering about the bushes till the dogs caught sight of her, when she flew to the hollow tree where the Jackal was hidden.
Of course the dogs smelled him at once, and set up such a yelping and scratching that the huntsman came up and, seeing what it was, dragged the Jackal out by the tail.
So there the Jackal lay for some time, getting the better of his bruises, and meanwhile he became hungry.
On this the Jackal shivered and shook with fear, and when the crocodile, in a grewsome growl, remarked that he was hungry and wanted a good meal, the wretched creature hadn't a word to say.
Then he fell upon his fellow-traveller without more ado, and they fought until they could not see out of their eyes, till their noses were bleeding, their clothes in rags, and the Jackal had nearly died of laughing.
Hearing these words of theirs, the jackal replied unto them, with rapt attention, in these sweet words fraught with reason and inculcating harmlessness to all: 'My birth has been low.
Without listening to the entreaties of the king of beasts, the intelligent jackal cast off his body by sitting in praya and proceeded to heaven (as the reward of his good deeds on earth).
But as he moved it up and down, the jackal and his wife, without losing their hold of it, continued to eat it away.
Indeed, if you listen to these false and fruitless words of the jackal against your own good sense, verily, all of you are sure to be destroyed.
Both the vulture and the jackal felt the pangs of hunger and thus addressed the kinsmen of the dead child.
The jackal said, 'Alas, the affection cherished by your weeping selves that are overwhelmed with grief for your deceased child has been lessened by that light-brained vulture.
Ascertaining that the meat was brought back from the jackal's house and hearing all those representations of his old servants, the king ordered, saying, 'Let the jackal be slain.
Beholding the jackal treated with respect and honoured in all his acts, the old servants of the king, conspiring together, began ceaselessly to display their hatred towards him.
If even after hundreds of days and nights I that am a jackal can once again obtain the status of humanity, I shall then pass my life in contentment, heedful of the true objects of existence, and engaged in sacrifices and gifts.
The jackal then, having (thus) slain and eaten the camel, came out of the cave after the storm and shower had ceased.
Bhishma said, 'Listen, O king, to this story of the discourse between a vulture and a jackal as happened of old.
I have, by my unworthiness, changed instruction into reproach, of which this diabolical jackal immediately took advantage.
And the most infamous of all, the jackal of darkness, the stinking beast, the Arian full of corruption and death, opened his mouth like a yawning sepulchre.
As he was meditating in this way, he saw a little jackal lying at his feet.
In the exact centre of the circular zodiac of Denderah we find the jackal [Anubis] located at the pole of the equator: it obviously represents the present Little Bear" (p.
If I save your tribe and Cumner's men from the half-bred jackal Boonda Broke, and hoist your flag on the Palace wall, it is only I who should do it.
In the end the pest would have carried me to death, as a jackal carries the broken meats to his den, if our hillsmen had not come.
So saying, theJackal ran off in one direction, and the Brahman went rejoicing on his way in the other.
The villagers heard him, and thought: "There is a jackal among the sugar canes; he will be scratching holes in the ground and spoiling the roots of the plants.
So the Brahman and the Tiger returned to the place where they first met, and the Jackal went with them.
When they got there, theJackal said: "Now Brahman, show me exactly where you stood.
When the Brahman had done this, the Jackal said: "Oh, you wicked and ungrateful Tiger!
So saying, he rolled over in the water, shaking the Jackal off as he did so.
One day the Jackal said to the Camel: "I know that there is a fine field of sugar cane on the other side of the river.
The Jackal answered: "It is impossible for me to decide who is in the right and who in the wrong unless I see the exact position in which you were when the dispute began.
When they had gone, the Jackalsaid to the Camel, "We had better go home.
Tit for Tat THERE once lived a camel and a jackal who were great friends.
When they reached the other side, the Camel went to eating the sugar cane, and the Jackalran up and down the river bank devouring all the crabs, bits of fish, and bones he could find.
And the Jackalwas drowned, but the Camel swam safely ashore.
So the Jackal jumped upon the Camel's back, and the Camel began to recross the river.
The dexterous hunter seldom enjoys his prey in peace for, as all large animals of prey pursue the small, so the bold, intruding Jackal presses him from all sides, waiting his chance to snatch part whenever possible.
The Jackalgenerally has a bad time in a combat with the Caracal.
Both jackal and fox are nicknamed Joseph the Scribe (Tálib Yúsuf) in the same principle that lawyers are called landsharks by sailors.
When the other Jackal heard his fellow's story, he envied his fulness and said in himself, "There is no help but that I eat the heart of a wild Ass.
Now one day, as he was in a certain mountain, behold, the day was done and he set out to return when he fell in with another Jackal who saw him on the tramp, and each began to tell his mate of the quarry he had gotten.
I render it jackal because that cousin of the fox figures as a carnon-eater in Hindu folk-lore, the Hitopadesa, Panchopakhyan, etc.
A certain Jackal was wont every day to leave his lair and fare forth questing his daily bread.
The mongrel of the dog and jackal contains more of the jackal than the dog.
The mongrels of the jackal and the dog are so from the fourth.
The jackal is an important character in the folk-tales, where he assumes the part taken in Europe by the fox.
The Korwas of Mirzapur abandon a journey if a jackal cross the road from the left, or if a little bird, known as the Suiya or small parrot, calls in the same direction.
The tale which tells how the jackalsucceeds in getting the tiger back into the cage and thus saves the Brahman is common in Indian folk-lore.
We have the lion Pingalika, king of beasts, with the jackal as his minister, and in one of the cycle of tales in which the weak animal overcomes the more powerful, the hare by his wisdom causes the lion to drown himself.
The flesh of the tiger, or if that be not procurable, the flesh of the jackal is burnt in the fields to keep off blight from the crops.
