The Jungle Book Lecture Notes Review

Flashcards covering the characters, terms, and cultural concepts found in the transcript of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

Tabaqui

The jackal, known as the Dish-licker, whom the wolves of India despise for his mischief-making, tale-telling, and habit of eating rags from village rubbish-heaps.

Dewanee

The jungle term for madness or hydrophobia, which the animals consider the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

Gidur-log

A term meaning 'the Jackal People.'

Shere Khan

The tiger, also known as Lungri (the Lame One), who lived near the Waingunga River and claimed the 'man's cub' as his quarry.

Raksha

A name meaning 'the Demon,' referring to Mother Wolf's fierce reputation in the Pack.

Akela

The great gray Lone Wolf who led the Seeonee Pack by strength and cunning for a year before Mowgli's presentation.

Law of the Jungle

A complex system of rules that never orders anything without a reason, such as forbidding the eating of Man unless showing children how to kill.

Baloo

The sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle and is the only other creature allowed at the Pack Council.

Bagheera

The Black Panther, born among men in the King's Palace at Oodeypore, who paid the price of one bull to buy Mowgli's life into the Pack.

Red Flower

The jungle term for fire, which every beast lives in deadly fear of and invents many names for to avoid calling it by its proper name.

Master Words of the Jungle

Specific protective phrases taught by Baloo that allow Mowgli to claim safety from the Birds, the Snake People, and the Hunting People.

Bandar-log

The Monkey People, described as outcasts who have no Law, no leaders, and no remembrance, and are ignored by the rest of the Jungle People.

Cold Lairs

A deserted, ruined Indian city lost in the jungle that the Bandar-log call their own, but which other animals avoid.

Kaa

The Rock Python, thirty feet long, whom the Bandar-log fear because he can climb as well as they can and steals young monkeys in the night.

Seeonee Pack

The community of free wolves that Mowgli was raised in before being cast out to the village of men.

Messua

The wife of the richest villager who takes Mowgli into her home, believing him to be the ghost of her son Nathoo who was taken by a tiger.

Buldeo

The village hunter who carries a Tower musket and tells fantastic stories about jungle spirits and ghost-tigers.

Sea Catch

A fifteen-year-old, seven-hundred-pound gray fur-seal and veteran fighter of the Novastoshnah beaches.

Holluschickie

The bachelor seals, typically two to four years old, who do not yet have nurseries and play on the sand-dunes.

Kotick

The rare white seal, son of Sea Catch and Matkah, who seeks a safe island for his people where men cannot come to kill them.

Sea Cow

Ugly, speechless, seaweed-eating sea creatures (Manatees) with extra joints in their fore flippers that lead Kotick to a safe, hidden island.

Rikki-tikki-tavi

A mongoose who is 'eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity' and protects an English family from cobras in their bungalow in Segowlee.

Chuchundra

A broken-hearted muskrat who creeps along the walls and is too afraid to run into the middle of the room.

Kala Nag

An elephant whose name means 'Black Snake,' who served the Indian Government for forty-seven years and was considered the best-loved elephant in the service.

Keddah

The stockade or enclosure used for catching and roping wild elephants.

Two Tails

The camp-beast slang used for an elephant.

Hukm hai

A phrase meaning 'It is an order,' used by the camp animals to explain why they obey and fight.