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Real Name |
Hathi |
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First Appearance |
Kaa's Hunting (1893) |
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Created by |
Rudyard Kipling |
Origin[]
Hathi is head of the elephant troop. He is one of the oldest animals of the jungle and represents order, dignity and obedience to the Law of the Jungle. Hathi is famed for his patience and never hurries unnecessarily. Hathi has a wife named Gajjini and 3 kids.
In "How Fear Came" at the time when the water truce occurred, he tells Mowgli and the jungle animals' creation myth and describes Tha, the first of elephants and how the first tiger broke the first law by slaying a man thus condemning the animals to being prey for humankind. He told this after Shere Khan the tiger had boasted about killing a man purely for sport.
In the story "Letting In the Jungle", Mowgli reveals that Hathi once destroyed a human village in revenge for being captured and persuades Hathi and his sons to do the same to the village where Mowgli once lived as punishment for threatening Messua with execution.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Hathi from before January 1, 1930 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- The Jungle Book (1894)
- Kaa's Hunting (1893)
- The Second Jungle Book (1895)
- How Fear Came (1894)
- Letting in the Jungle (1895)
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