Mowgli the real jungle boy story
Mowgli the real jungle boy story
English writer Rudyard Kipling composed the story of The Jungle Book in 1894 and its hero Mowgli while he was in India, however the real story of Mowgli is very different from the story they read and enjoyed when we were young.
Sir William Henry Solomon (a soldier of the British Empire in India who was responsible for arresting bandits of India) mentioned that there were six savage children living in an area surrounding Sony, which today is called Sony, Madhya Pradesh, India, where the area was home to dozens of wolves who came Most of these children were eaten by wolves, few survived and became the children who formed the basis for Mowgli’s story. Mowgli’s The Jungle Legend was based on all the stories Kipling wrote about Mowgli, including Mowgli’s The Jungle Book, and although most of the tale was Kipling’s imagination, it was based on Sir William Henry Solomon’s notes about the feral children he mentioned in his memoirs “A Journey Through the Kingdom of Odo” (1848-1850).
The true story of the legend of Mowgli
Sir William Henry Solomon tells that most of these children were found by soldiers living in caves with wolves, walking on all fours, eating and defecting like wolves, and it is likely that all these children reached the caves in the same way.
As the wolves were attacking the village and kidnapping some children while their parents were busy working in the fields, and miraculously, some of these children were adopted by wolf mothers instead of devouring them.One of these boys was captured and given to a merchant in Lucknow in 1845, but it is clear that his wolf friends did not abandon him. According to the merchant’s servant’s account, the wolves came to the settlement where they camped and played with the boy, and the servant noticed that between three or four wolves come each time to visit the boy, so Sir Solomon thought they were the same wolves who had adopted him since his childhood, and after about three months that boy escaped from the human camp and went into the bush and never found him again.
There was another boy who was found near Chandru, and like the rest of these boys he could never adapt to the life of humans, he did not allow any human to come near him and he ate raw meat and never learned to speak (a common trait among these children), and he made friends Stray dogs and jackals, but he was sharing food with them, but he died three years after he was foundAmong the characteristics of the bush children was that they walked on all fours, which made their elbows and knees strong, and most of them made noises like dogs and preferred to eat raw meat, and most of these children died shortly after their captivity and before they reached adulthood, with the exception of one This is Dina Sanichar. Was Dina Sanichar the real jungle boy Mowgli? Among the well-documented bush children is a boy who was found by hunters in a wolf’s den, taken to Sikandra’s orphanage in 1867, and since the child arrived at the shelter has been given the name Dina Sanichar, the only one to have reached adulthood and died at the age of 29 due to tuberculosis. Although his caretakers persuaded him to dress and eat cooked food like a human, he did not utter a word during the two decades he spent in the shelter and could only communicate with another wolf boy whom the hunters found in Minpur and brought to the shelter. The other boy was not speaking but was making a sad sound like that of a wolf puppy, but this boy did not live long and tried to escape several times before he died after four months only he was brought to the shelter. It is likely that Dina Sanicher is the real character from which Rudyard Kipling inspired the story of the jungle boy Mowgli.