The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-03-17
SOME WERE WOLF BOYS.
QUEER CASES OF CHILDREN
REARED BY WOLVES.
They Ate and Lived Like wild Animals
and Never Could BIS Tanned
Authentic Instances of the
Kind on Record. S

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Kind on Record.
Relapsed man is found IN three
forms-one, the most marked and
least human, is that which ensues
when he has, as a child, been carried
off and kept often for several years
by wild animal This is the acute
form relapse, says the Spectator, and
exhibits all the symptoms of the Pin
dus boy. with several others. among
them a wholly carniverous appetite
the voice of wild beast extreme
ferocity, and a temper quite impossi-
BILE to humanize The second and
milder form occurs when young
child has run wild or been deserted
and manages to keep itself alive with
out human aid to which form the case
of the Greek boy belongs.
The wild boy of Hanover, found in
the last century, was similar in
stance. He ran on all fours, ate
nothing but roots and nuts and was
without speech. The third form, now
very rare in Europe, but not uncom-
mon in the Ardennes and other dis
tricts whore the wolf still lives, is
clearly the result of the mental NAL
ady of lycanthropy, sufferers from
which are yearly brought to be
touched by the Holy Stole of St.
Hubert who if less potent than his
votaries imagine to drive the latent
poison of hydrophobia from the
tainted blood. can still minister to a.
mind diseased and with mystic and
consoling rites cures sufferers who ex-
hibit beyond doubt all the worst
traits by which relapsed man is
marked in the .completest form of
retrogression.
What these characteristics are NAV
be judged from the curious and COM
plete instances of the capture of chill
dren living in wolves dens in the
Province of Dude. collected, it is be-
lieved. by Colonel Sleeman. the able
officer who took a leading part in the
suppression of the Thugs of India.
In the first case. which occurred near
the Goomtee river in a district where
wolves abound and are never killed bv
the natives from fear of the, i'll luck
which their death will bring upon the
village. native trooper saw a large
she wolf leave her den, followed bv
three whelps and little boy.
The boy seemed on the best possi-
bic terms with the old dam and the
three whelps and. the mother wolf
seemed to guard an four with equal
care. They all went down to the
river and drank. after which thew
were chased by the trooper, but thew
escaped over rough ground into the
den. the boy running on all tours quite
as fast as the young wolves. The
man then got assistance and dug the
whole party out; the wolves and bow
bolted together and the boy was
caught fastened to rope, and led to
the village. 2*@ sa5zs ~
He could not speak but growled and
snarled like a young wolf and tried to
bolt in every hole and shelter that was
passed. After four days he was sent
to an English officer Captain Nicho
let's. Though kindly treated, he never
learned to speak, ran away from
grown-up people. flew at children and
tried to bite them, and ran to eat his
food on all tours. But he was friend
ly with a pariah dog and would let il
share his food He would suck up a
whole pitcher of buttermilk without
drawing breath apparently. He never
laughed or smiled. and DESTROYED all
the clothes given him.
Two and a half years after bis CAP
ture he died. and just before his death
spoke once or twice. saying his head
ached, and pronouncing the word for
water Another child caught in a
VOLTS den in the same neighborhood
was even more savage. He would
only eat raw flesh, on which he put
his hands as a dog puts its forefeet
he drank in the manner mentioned
before, and habitually ran on all fours,
from which his knees and knuckles
we're quite hard. Though reclaimed
by his mother, he was quite untam-
able and at last lived in the village
streets like pariah dog, going every
night into the jungle.
A third boy. caught near Hasanpur
could walk upright but preferred to
go on all tours, and ran so fast in that
position that no one could catch him.
He could not talk out was induced to
wear clothes. But he still remained
SO inhuman that few people would
keep him for any time. and for three
nights in succession wolves were seen
to come up and awake him. In each
case the boy played with the wolves
who capered round him and licked
him. <s. :
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