Atharva Veda 4.2: A Charm against tigers, wolves, thieves and other noxious creatures

Three have gone hence and passed away, the man, the tiger, and the wolf.
Down, verily, the rivers flow, down-goeth the celestial Tree,.
down let our foemen bend and bow.

On distant pathway go the wolf, on pathway most remote the thief!
On a far road speed forth the rope with teeth, and the malicious man!

We crush and rend to pieces both thine eyes, O Tiger, and thy jaws and all the twenty claws we break.

We break and rend the tiger first of creatures that are armed.
with teeth; The robber then, and then the snake, the sorcerer, and then the wolf.

The thief who cometh near to-day departeth bruised and crush-ed to bits.
By nearest way let him be gone. Let Indra slay him with his bolt.

Let the beast's teeth be broken off, shivered and shattered be his ribs!
Slack be thy bowstring: downward go the wild beast that pursues the hare!

Open not what thou hast compressed, close not what thou hast not compressed.
Indra's and Soma's child, thou art Atharvan's tiger-crushing charm.