Bagheera
Bagheera (Hindi: बघीरा / Baghīrā) is a black panther (black Indian leopard) who is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (coll. 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (coll. 1895). The word Hindi: बाघ / bāgha means "tiger" in Hindi.
Character history
Born in captivity in the menagerie of the Rajah of Oodeypore, India, Bagheera begins to plan for his freedom after his mother dies. Once he is mature and strong enough, he breaks the lock on his cage and escapes into the jungle, where his ferocity and cunning win him the respect of all its other inhabitants, except Shere Khan the tiger (likely out of his arrogance). Bagheera reveals all this to Mowgli later. None but Mowgli ever learn that Bagheera once wore a collar and chain, explaining the cat's special insight concerning Men.
When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf of the Seeonee (Seoni) wolf pack adopt the human "cub" Mowgli and the pack demands that the new cub should be spoken for, Bagheera buys Mowgli's life with a freshly killed bull and helps to raise him as one of the pack. Because his life has been bought by a bull, Mowgli is forbidden to eat cattle (coincidentally, just as the Hindu villagers of the region are also forbidden).
Bagheera (spider)
Bagheera is a genus of jumping spiders. There are four species.
Name
The genus name is derived from Bagheera, the black-toned Leopard from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book. Other salticid genera with names of Kipling's characters are Akela, Messua and Nagaina.
Species
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Bagheera (disambiguation)
Bagheera can refer to:
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Bagheera
ALBUMS
- Door to Deliverance released: 1995
Door to Deliverance
Released 1995- The Laggard
- One Day
- A Father's Face: I. Stubble Chin and Cynism / II. Little Ann and the Love of Men / III. Old Love Lies Deep
- How's Annie?
- Turn the Page
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- Murdress in Mind
- The Turtle and the Spider
- The Inheritance of Leviathan: I. The Resignation / II. Confusion / III. Awareness / IV. Sorrow / V. The Curtain Falls
- Epilogue: Il principe ha sempre ragione
Bagheera
ALBUMS
- Twelves released: 2004
Baghee-Ra
ALBUMS
- Raindance, Volume 2 released: 1998
Bagheera
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- Terrorizer: Fear Candy 112 released: 2012
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Not Chasing Ghosts
by: BagheeraIt always comes one time a year when the wrecking ball
feels near
so grab some Visine and some coins, we're headed for the
coast
we'll deftly navigate the maze of interstate
a thousand cars, a billion stars, still running from our
ghosts
but when we got there, we stood surprised and surrounded
by debris
it seems the boardwalk and the arcade were swallowed by
the sea
our pocket's weighed down with Washington's severed head
was no relief
God bless those high scores forever lost in this coin-op
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