Music and drumbeats scare away crouching Tiger in Asifabad

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: What would you do if you notice a tiger crouched in a bush is watching you? A group of 30 people had this scary experience in a remote forest stretch in Asifabad district on Thursday night. The villagers did not, however, shriek in fear or run away, but did something which must […]

Kumram Bheem Asifabad: What would you do if you notice a tiger crouched in a bush is watching you?

A group of 30 people had this scary experience in a remote forest stretch in Asifabad district on Thursday night. The villagers did not, however, shriek in fear or run away, but did something which must have baffled the ferocious big cat. They began playing drums and other musical instruments which they carried.

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Whether it’s the cacophony or the loud drum beats, the tiger, it seems, hesitated to attack them and confined itself to watching them, perhaps with curiosity. At the end of the two-hour gruelling period, the devotees troupe managed to scamper back home, albeit after over 100 people led by the police trudged into the forest on the rescue mission. The literally hair-raising incident was reported from Amaragonda village of Dahegaon mandal of Asifabad district on Thursday evening. But details of the incident trickled out only on Friday.

The unsuspecting group of devotees from Chinnaraspelli, moved into the forest to take a holy dip in a confluence of rivulets on the occasion of full moon day in Karthika masam. The devotees who took bath had the scare of their life when they heard the roar of the tiger. As the devotees froze with fear, they noticed the big cat crouched in bushes. The group of devotees numbering around 30 persons from Chinnaraspelli ventured deep into the forest to have a bath in the rivulets – peddavagu, on the occasion of the full moon day – the Karthika Pournami. As they were about to return from the rivulet, they heard the roar of the tiger and they literally froze in shock.

Luckily for the group, they were still in mobile coverage area. Some of them called their kith and kin, who ultimately alerted the police.

“The devotees were forced to wait on the shores of the rivulet for around 2 hours. We rescued them by rushing to the spot with the help of about 100 locals at around 8 pm. We shifted them to Chinnarasepally by bullock carts by 9 pm. But we could not spot the tiger in the vicinity. It might have moved away after they began playing trumpets and drums” Dahegaoin SI V Raghupathi told ‘Telangana Today.’

One of the devotees Chapide Anjannah said that they were tense after spotting the tiger in the bushes which was about to attack us. “All of us decided to stand together in one place and not scatter. Then we played drums, trumpets and other musical instruments. The loud music helped us scaring it away,” he narrated. The devotees, however, thanked policemen and locals for coming to their rescue.

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