WOLF CHILD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19945, 1 November 1934, Page 9

WOLF CHILD

AMAZING REVELATIONS AT DEATH

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright CALCUTTA, October 30.

An amazing parallel with Kipling’s wolf-child, Mowgli, was revealed by the defeth of a girl. Arya Samaj, in an orphanage at Bareilly, United Provinces.

Two years ago peasants at the Garhwal foothills captured what was at first thought to be a wild animal, but what later was found to be a girl of about 10 years. They kept her for a few days till they found her hunting and eating rats alive, when they handed her to the orphanage, where a careful record of her condition was made. She was obviously accustomed to run on allfours, as her hands and knees were deeply calloused, and she was unable to remain upright. At first she would eat nothing but raw meat. She growled at anyone attempting to take it from her, but gradually she became accustomed to rice and similar food. She retained the habit of digging in the earth for roots, and preferred food covered with dust. After eighteen months in the orphanage, she succeeded in standing upright, and though she did not learn to speak, she appeared to know the meaning of a few simple words. She died a month ago from dysentery. The orphanage authorities are of the opinion that she had been living in the Jungle for eight years, but whether she wus actually living with animals in unknown. Several cases of wolf-children have been reported in India during recent years.