<P> Kipling then proceeded to write the stories of Mowgli's childhood in detail . Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother (Raksha) and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli (the frog) because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still . Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse . Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves . In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well . </P> <P> Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore" from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man . Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in "The Law of the Jungle". </P> <P> Shere Khan continues to regard Mowgli as fair game, but eventually Mowgli finds a weapon he can use against the tiger--fire . After driving off Shere Khan, Mowgli goes to a human village where he is adopted by Messua and her husband, whose own son Nathoo was also taken by a tiger . It is uncertain if Mowgli is actually the returned Nathoo, although it is stated in "Tiger! Tiger!" that the tiger who carried off Messua's son was lame, just as Shere Khan is lame . Messua would like to believe that her son has returned, however she herself realises that this is unlikely . </P> <P> While herding buffalo for the village, Mowgli learns that the tiger is still planning to kill him, so with the aid of two wolves, he traps Shere Khan in a ravine where the buffalo trample him . The tiger dies, and Mowgli sets to skin him . Seeing this, Buldeo, a jealous hunter, goads the villagers into persecuting Mowgli and his adopted parents as sorcerers . Mowgli runs back to the jungle with Shere Khan's hide but soon learns that Buldeo and the villagers are planning to kill Messua and her husband . He rescues them and sends elephants, water buffaloes, and other animals to trample the village and its fields to the ground . </P>

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