| Buldeo | |
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Real Name |
Buldeo |
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First Appearance |
Tiger! Tiger! (1893) |
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Created by |
Rudyard Kipling |
Origin[]
Soon after Mowgli left the jungle and was adopted by Messua and Messua's Husband, he encountered Buldeo, the elderly (or at least middle-aged) chief hunter of Meshua's village. Buldeo was boastful and arrogant, and was furious when Mowgli, who knew what the jungle was really like, contradicted some of Buldeo's more fanciful stories about the jungle.
Buldeo hoped to catch the lame tiger (Shere Khan) so that he can claim the reward for the tiger's skin, but Mowgli (with the help of his wolf friends) killed the tiger first and refused to hand over the skin because he had vowed to lay it upon the wolfpack's Council Rock. When Buldeo threatened Mowgli, the wolf Akela intervened to stop him. Mowgli let Buldeo go, hoping that the matter would be settled, but instead Buldeo roused the village against him, claiming that Mowgli was a shapeshifting sorcerer. When Mowgli returned to the village the villagers drive him out; Buldeo tried to shoot Mowgli but missed.
Mowgli then rescued his animals allies and organised a series of animal stampedes, destroying the village and forcing the villagers, presumably including Buldeo as a "real devil", to seek refuge elsewhere.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Tiger! Tiger! (1893)
- Letting In the Jungle (1894)
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- The Second Jungle Book (1895)