Wild Children: A History Of Feral Children

Wild Children Wild Children are like untamed, isolated outcast. Wild children are described as a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age. Wild children have been around since approximately 1644. Wild children also known as feral children are confined by humans (usually parents), brought up by animals, or lived isolated to alone. There have been over one hundred cases reported of feral children worldwide. In order to understand feral children, one needs knowledge of the significant cases, the scientific opinions, and the children’s behavior. The first category a person should examine in order to understand a wild child is to understand the historically significant cases that have come up in history. One

A man and his dog first found her in the woods. She was standing with a club as they encountered her, in which the dog barked at her. Running at it with her club, she beat it to death, and then stood over its body exultantly, glorying in her victory over the animal. Then she ran up a nearby tree and fell asleep. As stated in, Massini-Cagliari, Gladis "Savage Girls and Wild Boys. A History of Feral Children.” “Memmie Le Blanc, a wild girl found in the Champagne region in 1731. She wore a necklace with a few pendants and was dressed in animal skin and could not understand a word in French. It was placed under the protection of the Viscount Epinoy, who died about a year after his capture. From the beginning, its protectors realized that it had not been lost in the forest at a very tender age, since. She began to learn to talk, acquiring French slowly but not with as much difficulty as might be expected. From this, some of her teachers wondered if she had not already been among French speakers. As to her original language, this was now completely lost.” This follows more of the typical wild child stories. With time Memmie became introduced back into society slowly but surely. She started to learn a little French and she started wearing clothes and being a normal

The she wolf raised the 2 females as well as real cubs. According to Massini-Cagliari, Gladis. "Savage Girls and Wild Boys. A History of Feral Children.“ A rather famous story, at least among linguists: the story of the life of the wolf-girls Amala and Kamala. In 1920, called by a village, southwest of Calcutta to exorcise ghosts, Rev. Singh would have discovered that the "ghosts" were only two girls, who slept, ate, and finally lived for all purposes with a group of wolves. Having followed them to the place where they lived, Singh would have dug a hole to rescue the two children. The oldest would have been around eight years and younger, a year and a half. The Reverend took them to live in the orphanage he and his wife managed, and he protected the children from the curiosity of the press and science as long as he could. But he himself collected and recorded a lot of information about the