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Feral Children
Children
who have apparently been nurtured in the wild by animals.
Also, children
that by some twist of fate and/or circumstance were raised in a non-human,
inhuman or sub-human environment, and because of it did not learn how to
communicate and/or behave in a human manner.
There have been, since
the 1600s, about 40 cases of feral children which become widely known and
documented.
Among the cases of long
ago, there are a few that deserve mention, such as those of the Hessian
wolf-boy (1341), of Wild Peter
of Hanover — found in 1724 in Germany — who was brought to England by
King George I, of the Irish sheep-boy (1672), of the Lithuanian bear-boy
— found in 1661 living among bears — who was adopted by a Polish count
who attempted to "humanize" him, of the wild boy of Aveyron
(Victor) — a child of about 12 who was seized by three hunters in France
in 1798 as he was climbing a tree — who was seen by locals throughout
many years running in the wild entirely naked before his capture, and the
well documented case of Kaspar Hauser
(1828). Another case, whose authenticity has been disputed, is
that of Kamala and Amala, two feral girls supposedly found among wolf cubs
in India in 1920.
More recently and
better documented, is the amazing story of John
Ssabunnya, who was reared
by apes in the Ugandan jungle in the late 80s and early 90s.
Related
books:
Feral
Children and Clever Animals: Reflections on Human Nature.
Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children.
The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron.
The
Wild Boy.
The Wild Boy of Aveyron.
The
Wolf Girls: An Unsolved Mystery from History.
Wild Boy of Aveyron.
Wild
Children: Growing Up Without Human Contact.
Wolf
Children and the Problem of Human Nature.
Wolf-Woman.
Further
info:
Boy Adopted By Chimps.
Feral Children.
From
Monkey Boy to Choir Boy.
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