1. Wolf Boys
Mowglee, the wolf boy in the story 'Jungle Book' (1894) by Rudyard Kipling is actually inspired
from an article written Sir W. H. Sleeman.
'Pench' tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh in Central India lays claim to the 'Jungle Book'.
Lonely Planet India.
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3. Wolf BoysWerner Freund, German Wolfman, feeds Wolves From His Mouth As Pack's 'Alpha Male‘. This 79-
year-old former military man has devoted his life to the beautiful but dangerous wolves that
inhabit his wolf park in Saarland Germany since 1972. Over the past four decades, he has raised
close to 70 wolves.
Currently, Freund has 29 wolves living among him; they are divide into six packs. The National
Geographic notes that wolves observe a rigid hierarchical structure. “To earn their respect, one
must become a wolf," Freund told the Telegraph. "And that is what I am to them –- their leader.“
Fairy tales like “Red Riding Hood give them a bad name. Germans hunted their native wolves
almost to extinction in the early 20th century, according to Germany's Spiegel Online.
On the other hand, governments in some countries -- including Canada, Russia, Norway and
Scandinavia -- have authorized intensive wolf hunts to keep down, and in some cases all but
eliminate, the impressive predator, according to the Guardian.
4. Recent –Wolf (Animal) boys & girls
Shamdeo
In May 1972, a boy aged about four was discovered in the forest of Musafirkhana, about 20 miles
from Sultanpur. The boy was playing with wolf cubs. He had very dark skin, long hooked
fingernails, matted hair and calluses on his palms, elbows and knees. He had: sharpened teeth,
craving for blood, earth-eating, chicken-hunting, love of darkness and friendship with dogs and
jackals. He was named Shamdeo and taken to the village of Narayanpur. Although weaned off raw
meat, he never talked. In 1978 he was admitted to Mother Theresa’s Home for the Destitute and
Dying in Lucknow, where he was re-named Pascal. He died in February 1985.
John Ssebunya
In 1991, a Ugandan villager Milly Sebba came upon a little boy with a pack of monkeys. She
summoned help and the boy was cornered up a tree. He was brought back to Milly’s village. His
knees were almost white from walking on them. His nails were very long and curled round and he
wasn’t house-trained. A villager identified the boy as John Sesebunya, last seen in 1988 at the age
of two or three. For the next three years or so, he lived wild. In October 1999 went to Britain as
part of the 20-strong Pearl of Africa Children’s Choir.
Oxana Malaya
Oxana Malaya (born November 1983) was found as an 8-year-old feral child in Ukraine in 1991,
having lived most of her life in the company of dogs. She picked up a number of dog-like habits
and found it difficult to master language. Oxana’s alcoholic parents were unable to care for her.
They lived in an impoverished area where there were wild dogs roaming the streets. She lived in a
dog kennel behind her
5. house where she was cared for by dogs and learned their behaviours and mannerisms. She growled,
barked and crouched like a wild dog, sniffed at her food before she ate it, and was found to have
acquired extremely acute senses of hearing, smell, and sight.
The Leopard Boy
A leopard-child was reported by EC Stuart Baker in the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
(July 1920). The boy was stolen from his parents by a leopardess in the North Cachar Hills near Assam in
about 1912, and three years later recovered and identified. “At the time the child ran on all fours almost
as fast as an adult man could run, whilst in dodging in and out of bushes and other obstacles he was
much cleverer and quicker. His knees had hard callosities on them and his toes were retained upright
almost at right angles to his instep. The palms of his hands and pads of his toes and thumbs were also
covered with very tough horny skin. When first caught, he bit and fought with everyone and any
wretched village fowl which came within his reach was seized, torn to pieces and eaten with
extraordinary rapidity.”
Kamala and Amala
The most famous wolf-children are the two girls captured in
October 1920 from a huge abandoned ant-hill squatted by wolves
near Godamuri in the vicinity of Midnapore, west of Calcutta, by
villagers under the direction of the Rev JAL Singh, an Anglican
missionary. The mother wolf was shot. The girls were named Kamala
and Amala, and were thought to be aged about eight and two.
According to Singh, the girls had misshapen jaws, elongated canines,
and eyes that shone in the dark with the peculiar blue glare of cats
and dogs. Amala died the following year, but Kamala survived until
1929, by which time she had given up eating carrion, had learned
to walk upright and spoke about 50 words.
6. Werewolf
Werewolf is a mythological human with the ability
to convert into a wolf either purposely or after being placed
under a curse. Werewolf is a widespread concept
in European folklore, existing in many variants. After the
end of the witch-trials, the werewolf became of interest
in folklore studies. Werewolf fiction as a genre has pre-
modern precedents in
medieval romances (e.g. Bisclavret and Guillaume de
Palerme).
In modern Scandinavian also kveldulf "evening-wolf",
presumably after the name of Kveldulf Bjalfason, a historical
berserker of the 9th century who figures in the Icelandic
sagas.
History
Indo-European comparative mythology
Dolon wearing a wolf-skin. Attic red-figure vase, c. 460 BC.
(Top)
Vendel period depiction of a warrior wearing a wolf-skin
(Tierkrieger) (Bottom)
The concept of the werewolf in Western and Northern
Europe is strongly influenced by the role of the wolf
in Germanic paganism. In his Man into Wolf (1948), Robert
Eisler tried to cast the Indo-European tribal namesmeaning
"wolf" or "wolf-men" in terms of "the European transition
from fruit gathering to predatory hunting.
7. Werewolf-Film
• Werewolf: The Beast Among
Us is a 2012 werewolf movie
directed by Louis Morneau.
The movie stars Nia
Peeples, Steven Bauer,
and Guy Wilson.
• Several other movies have
been made on the concept of
thee Werewolf. A Korean film
is also due soon on
Werewolves.
8. For further details on Sleeman’s Essay please refer to
Chapter 4. in Essays on 19th Century India Compiled by Rajesh Rampal and foreword by Hugh Purcell
former Managing Editor BBC. Accompaniment –The Devil’s Wind
WOLVES -Wolves - Children preserved by them in their dens, and nurtured
Extract from: Chapter IV of A JOURNEY THROUGH THE KINGDOM OF OUDE, IN 1849-1850;
BY MAJOR-GENERAL SIR W. H. SLEEMAN, K.C.B.
Resident at the Court of Lucknow
RICHARD BENTLEY,
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1858
