The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal and asks to see the trap. Once there he claims he still doesn't understand. The tiger gets back in the trap to demonstrate and the jackal quickly shuts him in, suggesting to the brahmin that they leave matters thus. There are more than a hundred versions of this tale spread across the world. In some the released animal is a crocodile, in some a snake, a tiger and others a wolf. Some variants are very old, going back at least to the "Panchatantra" or "Fables of Bidpai" and the Jataka tales. In Europe it appeared some 900 years ago in
The Tower of the Elephant "Conan the Barbarian", which includes Conan and his fellow thieves scaling a tower, battling a giant snake, and stealing a jewel. In the 2011 film "Conan the Barbarian" a character extols Conan's past accomplishments and mentions his adventure in the Tower of the Elephant. The story was adapted into a hack and slash video game for IOS by developer Chillingo, which was released as a tie-in for the 2011 film "Conan the Barbarian". The Tower of the Elephant "The Tower of the Elephant" is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian,