A fairy tale.
The demon Mahishasura, at birth, was gifted with two bodies - one the body of a man, the second was the body of man’s enemy, the tiger. Mahishasura the man had none of the fierce powers of his brothers, nor was he so strong as to keep back the chill hand of death. But when his human body was slain, a tiger would roar forth from the corpse, and when the tiger fell out crawled the man again.
