"pack offers to take Mowgli back, but he refuses to forgive them for casting him out earlier. Instead he decides that from now on he will hunt alone, except for his four wolf-brothers who refuse to be parted from him. The story ends with revealing that Mowgli would eventually grow up and get married. Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) ""Tiger! Tiger!"" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to ""Mowgli's Brothers"", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894), following ""Kaa's Hunting"". The title is derived from"
"Khan onto a dead strangler fig tree and eventually defeats him by causing him to fall into a pit of fire to his death, ending his tyranny once and for all. Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""Jungle Book"" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ""Shere"" (or """"shir"""") translates as ""tiger"" and ""Khan"" is a title of distinction, used together ""to show that he is chief among tigers."" Other sources indicate ""Shere"" may mean ""tiger"" or ""lion"" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that"
"Shere Khan Shere Khan (; ) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""Jungle Book"" and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ""Shere"" (or """"shir"""") translates as ""tiger"" and ""Khan"" is a title of distinction, used together ""to show that he is chief among tigers."" Other sources indicate ""Shere"" may mean ""tiger"" or ""lion"" in Persian, Urdu, and Punjabi, and that ""Khan"" translates as ""king"", or ""leader"", in a number of languages influenced by the Mongols, including Pashto and Urdu. Shere Khan was depicted by Kipling as being born with a crippled"
"Mowgli Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is a naked feral child from the Pench area in Seoni, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story ""In the Rukh"" (collected in ""Many Inventions"", 1893) and then went on to become the most prominent and memorable character in his collections ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean ""frog"", describing his lack of fur. Kipling made up the name, and it ""does not"
"The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or ""man-cub"" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is ""Seonee"" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as in the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling's own childhood. The theme is echoed"
"wanted it to be a lullaby, but it has a very mysterious sound."" Kaa Kaa is a fictional character from ""The Jungle Book"" stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Kaa is one of Mowgli's trusted mentors and friends. First introduced in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"" in ""The Jungle Book"", Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than 100 years old and still in his prime. In ""Kaa's Hunting"", Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is kidnapped by Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city called the Cold Lairs. Kaa breaks down the"
"worried about what his child will find around the next corner, the big cat who knows he has to let go just a little but can't find it in himself to do so"". Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of"
"Kaa Kaa is a fictional character from ""The Jungle Book"" stories written by Rudyard Kipling. Kaa is one of Mowgli's trusted mentors and friends. First introduced in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"" in ""The Jungle Book"", Kaa is a huge and powerful snake, more than 100 years old and still in his prime. In ""Kaa's Hunting"", Bagheera and Baloo enlist Kaa's help to rescue Mowgli when the man-cub is kidnapped by Bandar-log (monkeys) and taken to an abandoned human city called the Cold Lairs. Kaa breaks down the wall of the building in which Mowgli is imprisoned in and uses his"
"the same title in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) by Rudyard Kipling. In this tale set in India, the young mongoose saves his family from a krait and from Nag and Nagaina, two cobras. The story was later made into several films and a song by Donovan, among other references. A mongoose also features in Bram Stoker's novel ""The Lair of the White Worm"". The main character, Adam Salton, purchases one to independently hunt snakes. Another mongoose features in the denouement of the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Crooked Man"", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Indian Tamil Devotional"
"Bagheera Bagheera (; ""Baghīrā""/""Bagīdah"") is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in the ""Jungle Book"" (coll. 1894) and the ""Second Jungle Book"" (coll. 1895). He is a black panther (melanistic Indian leopard) who serves as friend, protector and mentor to the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. The word ""bagheera"" is Hindi/Urdu for black panther-- although the root word bagh means tiger. Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Raja of Udaipur, Rajasthan, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes"
"Baloo Baloo ( ""Bhālū"", ""bear"") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" from 1894 and ""The Second Jungle Book"" from 1895. Baloo, a sloth bear, is the strict teacher of the cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack. His most challenging pupil is the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Baloo and Bagheera, a panther, save Mowgli from Shere Khan the tiger and endeavor to teach Mowgli the Law of the Jungle in many of ""The Jungle Book"" stories. He is described in Kipling's work as ""the sleepy brown bear"". Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his"
"animation and its 2016 remake, and the 1989 Japanese anime ""Jungle Book Shonen Mowgli"". Stuart Paterson wrote a stage adaptation in 2004, first produced by the Birmingham Old Rep in 2004 and published in 2007 by Nick Hern Books. The Jungle Book The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or ""man-cub"" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India;"
"Raksha (The Jungle Book) Raksha ( / ""Rakšā"" or Mother Wolf as initially named) is a fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, collected in ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"". She is a female Indian wolf, member of the Seeonee pack, who while suckling her own cubs decides also to adopt a human ""cub"" that her mate Father Wolf has found wandering in the jungle, naming him ""Mowgli"" (which means ""frog"" in the Speech of the Jungle) because of his hairlessness. Defying the tiger Shere Khan, who is determined to eat the man-cub, she reveals that"
"fees for hunting a swamp deer. Rudyard Kipling in ""The Second Jungle Book"" featured a barasingha in the chapter ""The Miracle of Purun Bhagat"" by the name of ""barasingh"". It befriends Purun Bhagat because the man rubs the stag's velvet off his horns. Purun Bhagat then gives the barasinga nights in the shrine at which he is staying, with his warm fire, along with a few fresh chestnuts every now and then. Later as pay, the stag warns Purun Bhagat and his town about how the mountain on which they live is crumbling. Barasingha is the state animal of the"
"times. Pliny the Elder, for instance, describes the legendary basilisk as a snake ""twelve fingers in length"". The animal reappears many times in Western literature, including in Isidore of Seville's medieval ""Etymologiae"", and more recently in J. K. Rowling's 1998 ""Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"". Among the many other reptiles in children's literature, Rudyard Kipling's story ""How the Elephant got his Trunk"" in his 1902 book ""Just So Stories"" features a crocodile who grips and stretches the elephant's nose. Turtles and tortoises feature in books for children and adults, from The Tortoise and the Hare in Aesop's Fables"
"Akela (The Jungle Book) Akela ( / ""Akelā"" also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, ""The Jungle Book"" and ""The Second Jungle Book"". He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors. ""Akelā"" means ""single or solitary"" in Hindi and Urdu. Kipling also calls him the ""Lone Wolf: Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. This is shown"
"a drill sergeant who pushes Mowgli to understand the rules of the jungle. In the original novel, Baloo is described as a brown bear. In the 1967 Walt Disney's ""The Jungle Book"", he's portrayed as a Sloth bear, meanwhile in the Russian version, he's portrayed as an Asian black bear. In the 1994 remake of ""The Jungle Book"", Baloo is portrayed by a Cinnamon bear. In the live-action television shows and movies, Baloo is portrayed by an American black bear. Baloo Baloo ( ""Bhālū"", ""bear"") is a main fictional character featured in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" from 1894 and"
"The Third Jungle Book The Third Jungle Book by Pamela Jekel (, 1992), originally illustrated by Nancy Malick, is a collection of new stories about Mowgli, the feral child character, and his animal companions, created by Rudyard Kipling and featured in Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1895). The stories are written in an accurate pastiche of Kipling's style, although Jekel sometimes allows a modern American phrase to slip through. Jekel's plotting also frequently includes references to animal behaviour and anatomy that were not a feature of Kipling's original stories. Chronologically the stories begin some time"
"Messua (spider) Messua is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The genus name is derived from Messua, a female character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are ""Akela"", ""Bagheera"" and ""Nagaina"". The genus was first described in 1896 by American arachnologists George and Elizabeth Peckham based on the type species ""Messua desidiosa"". The genus ""Messua"" was synonymized with ""Zygoballus"" by Eugène Simon in 1903. After examining the type specimen for ""Messua desidiosa"", Simon commented that it was ""much less divergent from typical ""Zygoballus"" than [the Peckhams'] description would indicate."" This"
"Hathi Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1895). Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle. Kipling named him after ""hāthī"" (हाथी), the Hindi word for ""elephant"". Hathi is head of the elephant troop. He is one of the oldest animals of the jungle and represents order, dignity and obedience to the Law of the Jungle. Hathi is famed for his patience and never hurries unnecessarily. In ""How Fear Came"", he tells the jungle animals' creation myth and describes Tha,"
"bird of prey which feeds almost exclusively on snakes.) The Mayans also had the legend of ophiophagy in their folklore and mythology. Guatemala may derive its name from the Nahuatl word ""coactlmoctl-lan"", meaning ""land of the snake-eating bird."" Christian scripture associates snakes with evil (see serpent) and considers anything that destroys them good. An example for this tradition is Rudyard Kipling's short story ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" (in ""The Jungle Book""), in which Rikki-Tikki, a mongoose, defends a human family against a pair of evil cobras. In Hindu and Buddhist folklore, Garuda, the mount of Vishnu, is the enemy to the Nāgas, a"
"mean 'frog' in any language other than the language of the forest."" Kipling stated that the first syllable of ""Mowgli"" should rhyme with ""cow"". The Mowgli stories, including ""In the Rukh"", were first collected in chronological order in one volume as ""The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book"" (1907) (Volume VIII of this series contained the non-Mowgli stories from the Jungle Books), and subsequently in ""All the Mowgli Stories"" (1933). ""In the Rukh"" describes how Gisborne, an English forest ranger in the Pench area in Seoni at the time of the British Raj, discovers a young man"
"write. The Third Jungle Book The Third Jungle Book by Pamela Jekel (, 1992), originally illustrated by Nancy Malick, is a collection of new stories about Mowgli, the feral child character, and his animal companions, created by Rudyard Kipling and featured in Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) and ""The Second Jungle Book"" (1895). The stories are written in an accurate pastiche of Kipling's style, although Jekel sometimes allows a modern American phrase to slip through. Jekel's plotting also frequently includes references to animal behaviour and anatomy that were not a feature of Kipling's original stories. Chronologically the stories begin some"
"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag and Nagaina who are angered by the family's presence on their territory."
"Drawn from Nature and Engraved in Aqua-tinta"", describing it as an ""animal of the bear-kind"" and saying it was properly called the ""Petre Bear"". In Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", Baloo ""the sleepy old brown bear"" teaches the Law of the Jungle to the wolf cubs of the Seeonee wolf pack, as well as to his most challenging pupil, the ""man-cub"" Mowgli. Robert Armitage Sterndale, from whom Kipling derived most of his knowledge of Indian fauna, used the Hindustani word ""bhalu"" for several bear species, though Daniel Karlin, who edited the Penguin Classics reissue of ""The Jungle Book"" in 1989,"
"Bagheera kiplingi Bagheera kiplingi is a species of jumping spider found in Central America, including Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. It is the type species of the genus ""Bagheera"", which includes three other species, including ""B. prosper"". ""B. kiplingi"" is notable for its peculiar diet, which is mostly herbivorous. No other known species of spider has such a thoroughly herbivorous diet. The genus name is derived from Bagheera, the black panther from Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"", with the species name honoring Kipling himself. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are ""Akela"", ""Messua"", and ""Nagaina"". All four were"
"Kldiashvili directed a live action feature film entitled ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" four years later. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" is a short story in the 1894 anthology ""The Jungle Book"" by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. It has often been anthologized and has been published several times as a short book. The story follows the experiences of a mongoose named Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (after his chattering vocalizations) after he becomes the pet of a British family residing in India as protection against cobras. He becomes friendly with some of the other creatures inhabiting the garden, and is warned of the cobras Nag"
"a snake (identified as Satan by both Paul and John in II Corinthians and Revelation, respectively). In the story, the snake convinces Eve to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which she then convinces Adam to do as well. As a result, God banishes Adam and Eve from the garden and curses the snake. In the state of Kerala, India, snake shrines occupy most households. Snakes were called upon by the creator of Kerala, Parasurama, to make the saline land fertile. The Mannarasala Shri Nagaraja Temple is one of the main centres of worship. The"
"Great Snake"". The Great Snake ""The Great Snake"" or ""The Great Serpent"" (, lit. ""Of the Great Serpent"") is a folk tale (the so-called ""skaz"") of the Ural region of Siberia collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the 11th issue of the ""Krasnaya Nov"" literary magazine in 1936 and later the same year as a part of the collection ""Prerevolutionary Folklore of the Urals"". It was later released as a part of ""The Malachite Casket"" collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in"
"Red Dog (Kipling short story) ""Red Dog"" is a Mowgli story by Rudyard Kipling. Written at Kipling's home in Brattleboro, Vermont between February and March 1895, it was first published as ""Good Hunting: A Story of the Jungle"" in ""The Pall Mall Gazette"" for July 29 and 30 1895 and ""McClure's Magazine"" for August 1895 before appearing under its definitive title as the 7th and penultimate story in ""The Second Jungle Book"" later the same year. It was also the penultimate Mowgli story to be written. Mowgli the feral child is about 16 years old and living contentedly with his"
"Bandar-log Bandar-log () is a term used in Rudyard Kipling's ""The Jungle Book"" to describe the monkeys of the Seeonee jungle. In Hindi, ""Bandar"" means ""monkey"" and ""log"" means ""people"" – but can also be used for plurality hence the term simply refers to ""monkeys"". The term has also since come to refer to ""any body of irresponsible chatterers."" The Bandar-log feature most prominently in the story ""Kaa's Hunting"", where their scatterbrained anarchy causes them to be treated as pariahs by the rest of the jungle. Their foolish and chattering ways are illustrated by their slogan: ""We are great. We"
"As had been promised the snake was recognized as Aji Saka's son and he was given a name Jaka Linglung (a stupid boy). In the palace Jaka Linglung greedily ate domestic pets of the palace. He was punished by the King, expelling him to live in the Jungle of Pesanga. He was tightly roped until he could not move his head. He was instructed only to eat things which fall to his mouth. One day, a group of nine village boys were playing around in that Jungle. Suddenly it was raining heavily. They had to find a shelter, luckily there"
"Kaa's Hunting ""Kaa's Hunting"" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in ""The Jungle Book"" (1894) where it is accompanied by the poem ""Road Song of the Bandar-log"". The seven-year-old ""man-cub"" Mowgli, raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, is being tutored in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear, but ""runs off in a temper"" when Baloo spanks him for inattention. Bagheera the panther, who disapproves of this corporal punishment, persuades Mowgli to return and recite"