{"id":61313,"date":"2015-08-03T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=61313"},"modified":"2015-07-21T13:05:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T12:05:47","slug":"the-tigers-whisker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/the-tigers-whisker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tiger\u2019s Whisker"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Korean Folktale<\/em><\/p>\n

\"tiger<\/a>A woman came to seek help from a famous herbalist.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband is unkind since he returned from the war. If he does not like the food I prepared for him, he pushes it away; sometimes he sits on top of a hill, staring for hours into the distance when he should work in the field. Can you prepare a potion that will cure him?\u201d<\/p>\n

The herbalist said, \u201cI can make such a potion, but the most important ingredient is the whisker of a living tiger.\u201d The woman was worried: \u201cHow can I get a whisker from a living tiger?\u201d \u201cYou will find a way.\u201d The herbalist said.<\/p>\n

The woman went out that night and walked towards the cave where the tiger was known to live, but she did not dare to go too close and returned without a whisker. The next night, she prepared a bowl of rice and meat sauce, and went again a little closer, and waited for the tiger, but he did not come. This went on for six months. Each time, she dared to go a little closer, and finally the tiger ate the food she brought him. She did that for several nights.<\/p>\n

One night she said to the tiger, \u201cDon\u2019t be angry, but I need one of your whiskers\u201d, and pulled one out. The tiger calmly let her pull it. Happily, she ran to the herbalist and showed him her find. He examined the whisker carefully, and found that it was from a real living tiger. Then he threw it into his fireplace and burnt it.<\/p>\n

The woman was incredulous. \u201cWhat have you done with my precious whisker, your destroyed it, how can you now make the potion for my husband?\u201d<\/p>\n

The herbalist replied, \u201cYou don\u2019t need any potion. If you have been able to tame a blood-thirsty tiger with patience and kindness, don\u2019t you think you can equally tame a man?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dietrich Fischer, born in 1941 in M\u00fcnsingen, Switzerland, got a Licentiate in Mathematics from the University of Bern 1968 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from New York University 1976. 1986-88 he was a MacArthur Fellow in International Peace and Security at Princeton University. He has taught mathematics, computer science, economics and peace studies at various universities and been a consultant to the United Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted from Dietrich Fischer’s <\/em>Stories to Inspire You<\/a> – TRANSCEND University Press-TUP<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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