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
Emblem of His Majesty the King of Ashanti of Ashanti was created by emperor Asantehene Nana Osei Kofi Tutu I (r. 1695 – 1717). The national emblem of Ashanti is surmounted by a red Porcupine (or Ashanti: Kotoko) on a gold background symbolizing the soil gold mineral wealth and gold bar wealth of Ashanti; the Porcupine has been the designated national animal of Ashanti since 1701 into the present 21st century representing the Ashanti people proverb "The porcupine fights from all angles" and the Ashanti people readiness of the Ashanti nation to wage war on its enemies and the Ashanti nation motto "Kum apem a, apem beba" (Kill