Note
Location
India
Subject
Distribution
Species
Asian Rhinos
[103] Lushai tribe. – The rhinoceros is also safe from attack on acount of a similar belief, the folds of his skin being supposed to be derived from the folds of the cloths of persons who were transmogrified. The natural result of killing one of these animals is that all members of the slayer’s family sicken and die, but this can be avoided if the succesful huntsman on his return to the village goes straight to the zawlbuk or forge and remains there a whole day and night, after which it is safe for him to enter his house, provied that he leaves his gun and haversack behind and has changed all his clothes.
