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  • Villagers thought they killed a supernatural shape-shifter. It was an endangered Sumatran tiger.

    03/06/2018 11:06:14 AM PST · by BBell · 52 replies
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ^ | 4/6/18 | Lindsey Bever
    A Sumatran tiger hangs, dead and disemboweled, from a ceiling in a public hall in a remote village in northern Indonesia. A photograph shows the lifeless animal strapped to a wooden plank — and dozens of villagers crowded around to see it. It’s not certain why the critically endangered animal was slain Sunday in a village in North Sumatra, but local news reports say it had mauled at least one or two residents who had followed it to its lair — to determine whether it was a mythological, supernatural being.The Jakarta Post reported that superstitious villagers feared it was a...