HUMAN WOLVES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 November 1926, Page 9

HUMAN WOLVES

CLERIC’S STRANGE STORY. CHILDREN IN DEN BARK LIKE ANIMALS. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 11.45 a.m. to-day. DELHI, Nov. 14.' A remarkable story, absolutely vouched for by Bishop Pakenham Walsh and the Rev. Sigh. Aid inn, a Christian missionary, is that two Indian girts, who- have been abandoned, were living with wolves at Alidnapore, Bengal. These girls, one aged two and the other eight years old, were discovered, by chance owing to villagers saying they never used a certain path because it was haunted. A party came upon the wolves den, guarded by the mother wolf, which had •been shot. They found two cubs, anti •the two girls. The latter were very fierce, and darted .away on all fours, uttering gutteral barkings. When caught, it was found that their nails had become concave, through constant scratching. The children were taken to the Alidmapore orphanage. One died, but the elder survived. She is of normal size, and knows a lev words of Bengal. She has now become accustomed to- clothes, and being washed which at first she intensely resented, She still has an overpowering desire for meat, preferably raw. She. has abnormally acute smell, hearing, and sight. She now never barks, and has developed rapidly, but has no aptitude for learning.