That account was first published in the first volume of Sleeman's Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1848-1850 (1858) and reprinted in 1852 as An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in Their Dens, by an Indian Official and in The Zoologist (1888 12 (135): 87-98). Part of Kipling's inspiration for the story of Mowgli is believed to have been William Henry Sleeman's account of six cases in India in which wild children had been raised by wolves. Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow." However Disney had the first syllable rhyme with "go." Kipling's daughter got upset about this. It does not mean 'frog' in any language that I know of." Kipling later said "Mowgli is a name I made up. In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", describing his lack of fur. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters. Mowgli ( / ˈ m aʊ ɡ l i/) is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. An illustration from The Second Jungle Book (1895) Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling).
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