Mowgli

Mowgli is a fictional feral child character who originally appeared in Rudyard 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 fantasies, The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894-1895), which also featured non-Mowgli stories.

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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).

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Feral child: A feral child is a child who has lived isolated from human contact starting from a very young age and who has remained unaware of human behaviour and unexposed to language. A feral child is an extremely rare phenomenon. Around 100 cases over the past few centuries are documented at feralchildren.com...

Rudyard Kipling: Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story The Jungle Book (1894), the Indian spy novel Kim (1901), the poems "Gunga Din" (1892), "If— " (1895), and his many short stories....

Mowgli related Images and Photos (experimental)

Baloo and Mowgli

Mowgli Holds Aloft the Hide of Shere Khan the Tiger

Mowgli and the Wolves Illustration from 'The Jungle Book' by Rudyard Kipling

Mowgli and the Monkeys Illustration from 'The Jungle Book' By Rudyard Kipling