HINDU WOLF-GIRLS
A STRANGE CASE After years spent studying historical records of "wild" men and "wolf" children. Dr. Robert M, Zingg has discovered the modern sisters of Romulus and Remus, but he has yet to find a real-life T'arzan. Dr Zingg is associate professor of anthropology at Denver University, Colorado, U.S.A. The most complete case-history of a child with an animal foster mother is that of the wolf girls oi Midnapore, India, Dr Zingg records, The facts, he states, are vouched for by the Rev J. A. L. Singh!,Midnapore missionary, and he is about to publish Mr Singh's diarv on the case. Here is the strange story: "The natives in - a remote section of the North-west Provinces told the Rev Singh of a family of wolves living in a huge ant pile (they are as big as a house in India) with two creatures that appeared to be half animal, half human," says Dr. Zingg. "They dug into the mound and discovered, the wolf den, in which were four forms. Two of the creatures were wolf pups. Two were children, both girls, one about one and a half years old, the other about eight. Ate Only Raw Meat. "The Rev Singh took them to his orphanage at Midnapore and attempted to wean them from their animal habits. The younger girl became known as Ainala. the elder as Kamala. "At x first they ate nothing but raw meat. Loin cloths weVe sewn upon them, but they tore them away. They .walked and ran 011 all fours. They knawed on bones, holding them on the ground with one hand, in dog fashion.
"Gradually. the friendship of the younger child was stirred by Mrs Singh through the medium most successfully employed in winning the friendship of animals—by feeding her. "This younger child aided in teach ing the older one, but, unfortunately, before this had progressed very far, the younger child died. The elder child's training received a severe setback and, although she lived for nine years under the case of the Singhs she only learned about 40 words, and never came into full command of her human faculties."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 225, 14 October 1940, Page 2
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