"Mowgli syndrome" is a term used by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty in her book Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes to describe mythological figures who succeed in bridging the human and animal worlds to become one with nature, a human animal, only to become trapped between the two worlds, not completely animal yet not entirely human. Another literary account described this term as a birth defect that results from sexual relations between a human and a shapeshifter in animal form.
"Mowgli syndrome" is a term used by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty in her book Other Peoples’ Myths: The Cave of Echoes to describe mythological figures who succeed in bridging the human and animal worlds to become one with nature, a human animal, only to become trapped between the two worlds, not completely animal yet not entirely human. Another literary account described this term as a birth defect that results from sexual relations between a human and a shapeshifter in animal form.
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