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me by men who claim that they were the result of wounds inflicted 

 on their leopard bodies. Kiyezu of Nikoto, now Chief of Kiyezu- 

 Nagami, who used to be a were-leopard in his youth, can show the 

 marks on the front and the back of his leg above the knee where 

 he had been shot, as a leopard, long ago by a sepoy of the Military 

 Police outpost at Wokha with a Martini rifle. The marks, in cor- 

 responding 230sitions on the front and back of the thigh, looked like 

 marks caused by bad boils. Zukiya, of Kolhopu village, showed me 

 fairly fresh marks about his waist which he said were two months 

 old, and caused by shot which had hit his leopard body, and the 

 marks looked as though they might have been caused by shot. 

 Ghowki, the Chief of Zukiya's village, said that Zukiya was in the 

 habit of pointing out the remains of pigs and dogs killed by him 

 in leopard form, so that their owners might gather up what re- 

 mained. He said that he had a quarrel with his own brother, one 

 of whose pigs he had killed and eaten by accident. Ghokwi men- 

 tioned the names of various people whose animals Zukiya had killed 

 and eaten. 3 Sakhuto, Chief of Khuivi, showed a wound in his back 

 which was quite new on March 1st, 1913, which he said was the result 

 of some one having shot at him when he was in leopard form a few 

 days before. The wound in the human body does not, under such 

 circumstances, appear at once. It affects the same place in the human 

 body as the original wound did the leopard, but takes several days 

 to appear. 



In March, 1919, an Angami interpreter, Resopu of Cheswezuma, at 

 that time working with me in camp, wounded a large tiger near 

 Melomi. Three or four days later the Head Interpreter of the 

 Deputy Commissioner's staff, a very well-known, highly intelligent, 

 and reliable man, Nihu of Kohima, happened to meet a sick Sema 

 road muharrir, Saiyi of Zumethi, being carried home. The man, 

 who was employed near Melomi, complained of having had an ac- 

 cident, but on being pressed several times for details, admitted that 

 he had no external injury that could be seen, but was suffering from 

 the effects of the wounds inflicted by Resopu on his tiger form, 

 having very severe pains in his neck or shoulder and abdomen and 

 being haunted by the horrid smell of rotting flesh. 4 



'According to some a were-leopard who kills cattle may be found in the morning to 

 have bits of their flesh sticking to his teeth. 



* In May I went on 10 months' leave. On my return I learned that this man Saiyi had 

 died, during my absence, in Kohima as a result, I was told, of the putrefaction of his 

 internal injuries. Mr. J. P. Hills and myself went into the matter of Saiyi's death. It 

 appears that he was admitted to the Kohima hospital, and that his case was diagnosed 

 by the doctor in charge (Sub-Assistant Surgeon Haralu, himself a Kacha Naga) as tuber- 

 culosis of the lungs, the patient also having a tumor near the top of the right hip. 

 Saiyi insisted that Resopu's bullet was inside him, and was so angry at being treated for 

 something else that he quarrelled with the doctor, left the hospital, and shortly after- 

 wards died in his own house. 



