Today's Curiosity: Feral Children!

Feral Children.
Feral children, also known as wild children or wolf children, are children who've grown up with minimal human contact, or even none at all.
They may have been raised by animals (often wolves) or somehow survived on their own.
In some cases, children are confined and denied normal
social interaction with other people.

This is a fascinating, scholarly and very resource-rich site which relates accounts of "wild children" in legend, history and fiction.

You'll meet Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, who is described in many first-year General Psych textbooks, and is considered to be the first documented case of autism.
We also learn about wild children in popular fiction - from Tarzan to Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke.