<P> In "The Spring Running", as the teenage Mowgli reluctantly prepares to leave the jungle for the last time, Kaa tells Mowgli that "it is hard to cast the skin," but Mowgli knows he must cast the skin of his old life in order to grow a new one . Kaa, Baloo and Bagheera sing for Mowgli in "The Outsong", a poem and the ending of "The Spring Running". </P> <P> In the 1967 Disney film, Kaa is markedly different from the Kipling character . Rather than being a mentor, he appears as a minor antagonist who twice manages to trap Mowgli in his coils in an attempt to eat him . He does this through the use of hypnotic eyes as opposed to the original version, in which he uses a serpentine dance to control his prey . Both of his attempts to eat Mowgli end in comical failure because he is interrupted right before he can swallow him . Kaa is depicted as cowardly, attempting to curry favor with Shere Khan whenever he is around . </P> <P> Voice actor Sterling Holloway decided to give Kaa a lisp, a condition that composers the Sherman Brothers brought into the character's song in The Jungle Book, "Trust in Me". </P> <P> This particular version of Kaa drew inspiration from previous Disney characters that followed a similar trope, such as Tick - Tock the Crocodile from Peter Pan and the Wolf from The Sword in the Stone . Both are fixated on a specific character (namely Captain Hook and Wart, respectively) as food and comically attempt to eat them throughout the film, without success . </P>

Who played kaa in the original jungle book