The Wolf Boy of the Ardennes
Ross, in Arcana Microcosmi, gives us this brief description of the Ardenne Wolf Boy:
...a childe that was carried away in the Forest of Ardenne by Wolves, and nourished by them.
This child having conversed with them divers years, was at last apprehended, but could neither speak nor walk upright,
nor eat any thing except raw flesh, till by a new education among other children, his bestial nature was quite abolished.
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Ross gives the reference Divers Lecons, by Louys Guyon, and you can read the section that describes the Ardenne Wolf Boy here (bear in mind that this is early seventeenth-century French). Zingg gives for the same child the reference Schediasma de hominum inter ferus educatorum statu naturali solitario, Hannover, 1730, by Koenig, Henricus Conradus.
The Wolf Boy of the Ardennes
Date found: c1500
Location: Ardenne, France
Animals: wolves
Date found: c1500
Location: Ardenne, France
Animals: wolves
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