THE LEGEND OF GELERT

In Malaysian folkore, a similiar story involves a tame bear, kept by a Malay hunter as the guardian of his young daughter.as in the story of Gelert, the hunter returns home from an expedition and finds his daughter gone and the bear has devoured his daughter, the hunter kills it with his spear, but later finds the body of a tiger killed by the bear in defence of the hunter's daughter, who shortly emerges from the jungle, from where she took refuge.