This is a true story-oh, I suppose I can't call it a story but an incident. You might have read such weird happenings in folk lores and in mythological stories.
But this happened in Calcutta, India.
Amala and Kamala were two so-called "wolf-girls"—feral children allegedly raised by a family of wolves before being found in 1920 near Calcutta, India, at eight and 18 months old, respectively.
Do you know that they displayed wolfish behaviours after being in the custody of the wolf? Yes, they did not dress themselves and walked on all fours!
It was how they were found by a director of an orphanage and documented his observations of them in a diary for almost 10 years. He recorded that they girls were nocturnal.
Read the rest of the bizarre story here.
2 comments:
Hey did that really happen? I had this story in English prose during my school days and it is one of the best I've read. I always thought it was just a story though it seems so real.
I've actually read various stories about feral children. Some of them are found at a young enough age to be incorporated into human society and eventually learn human language/behaviors. But others have been in the wild so long that they're never able to fully adapt. It's really interesting.
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