man-tiger

This is not substantiated by more recent analyses, which suggest that man-killing may be at least partly correlated with the availability of easy prey (humans) and the frequency of man-tiger interactions.

Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

I'd roar too if I was cut down in the prime of my life by a mangy man-tiger in search of poontang.

SILVER SABLE #27 Marvel Comics, 1994 David Campbell 2007

James Helstone, I can only say he was a man-tiger.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

He saw several forms moving between the houses, and he was glad that he had not killed them all, despite the fact that now he had left witnesses behind, yet more tales of the great man-tiger that had stalked the frontier of Honce-the-Bear for the last several years.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

He saw several forms moving between the houses, and he was glad that he had not killed them all, despite the fact that now he had left witnesses behind, yet more tales of the great man-tiger that had stalked the frontier of Honce-the-Bear for the last several years.

Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

Just then a voice from one of the other beds -- each bed, as Chamcha now knew, was protected by its own ring of screens -- wailed loudly: "Oh, if ever a body suffered!" and the man-tiger, or manticore, as it called itself, gave an exasperated growl.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

The man-tiger had no answer to make but went back silently and alone to his own home.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

The man-tiger went prowling round his father-in-law's house and at last his father-in-law plucked up courage and went out and threw the root which the wife had brought under the tiger's nose and he at once became a man again.

Folklore of the Santal Parganas Cecil Henry Bompas

Etymology alone does not explain the fact that while Gaul has been the favourite haunt of the man-wolf, Scandinavia has been preferred by the man-bear, and Hindustan by the man-tiger.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872

We can only comprehend the combination of sanguinary lust with Ibrahim's vigorous conduct of civil and military affairs, on the hypothesis that this man-tiger, as Amari, to whom I owe these details, calls him, was possessed with a specific madness.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866