"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!" (Dickens, 99) Ebenezer Scrooge, the main hero of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, says these words after one night passing in the supernatural world. They are evidence of his miraculous metamorphosis under the influence of supernatural force, his transformation from a man who loves only money and himself, who hardly believes in God, and whose favorite word is "Humbug!" to a man who becomes "as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the gold old city [knows]" (Dickens, 106). Unlike him, Mowgli, the main hero of R. Kipling's The Jungle Books, will never believe in God, although he not only comes...