A real-life Mowgli boy discovered in 1873 could have been the inspiration for The Jungle Book

Yes, that’s right kids, Disney fables can sometimes be true.

The hunters saw Dina, who was reportedly six-years-old, crawling on all fours with a pack of wolves walking beside him.

The hunters attempted to rescue the child by separating him from his pack, which led the group of men to light the cave’s mouth on fire. 

The wolves ran out from the cave as the hunters killed them while they retrieved the boy.

However, the return to civilisation life proved to be difficult as Dina was immediately sent to live at an orphanage. 

He was given the name ‘Sanichar’, which means Saturday in Urdu, the day he arrived at the establishment.

The boy could not also understand language, and though he wasn’t a mute, he would only communicate by emulating wild animal noises.

Dennis shares that the boy didn’t develop any bonds with the other children at the orphanage until another ‘feral child’ was brought in.

He wrote: “A strange bond of sympathy attached these two boys together, and the elder one first taught the younger to drink out of a cup.”

While there were numerous attempts to teach Dina the ways of human civilisation, he never learnt how to speak and remained impaired for the rest of his life before passing in 1895 of tuberculosis.

A year before Dina died, Rudyard Kipling released his famous collection of stories titled The Jungle Book.