F is for Feral Children Part I

If you go down to the woods today, well... hopefully you won't find a kid. And if you do, hopefully they weren't left there to be raised by wolves! That's right, this week Will and Alisha embark on a two-part series talking about feral and wild children. Can they really see in the dark and communicate with animals? Or is all just a tall tail for horrible people to gain fame and fortune? Join us to find out more!

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Sources:

Books

Savage Girls and Wild Boys (Michael Newton, 2002)

 

Articles

Kaspar Hauser Monument, Ansbach Germany (Atlas Obscura)

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kaspar-hauser-monument

 

Kaspar Hauser, German Youth (Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, Apr 2021)

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kaspar-Hauser

 

The Forbidden Experiment (Rebecca Saxe, The Boston Review, Jul 2006)

https://bostonreview.net/saxe-the-forbidden-experiment

 

The Famous Savage Boy of France (Christina Dalcher, History of Yesterday, Aug 2020)

https://historyofyesterday.com/the-famous-savage-boy-of-france-a5c03453f0ea

 

Amala and Kamala

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amala_and_Kamala

 

John, el último niño salvaje del siglo (John the last wild boy of the Century) by Isabel Ferrer 1999

https://elpais.com/diario/1999/10/17/sociedad/940111201_850215.html

 

Feral children by Michelle Jarman

https://www.britannica.com/topic/feral-children

 

Feral: The children raised by wolves - Photography by Julia Fullerton-Batten

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20151012-feral-the-children-raised-by-wolves

 

How language shapes the way we think by Lera Boroditsky

https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/13/

 

Breastfeeding Animals and Other Wild “Nurses” in Greek and Roman Mythology by Giulia Pedrucci

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311690563_Animales_amamantando_y_otras_nodrizas_salvajes_en_la_mitologia_griega_y_romana/fulltext/587dc88608ae9a860ff1dc3d/Animales-amamantando-y-otras-nodrizas-salvajes-en-la-mitologia-griega-y-romana.pdf

 

Peter the Wild Boy's condition revealed 200 years after his death by Maev Kennedy

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/peter-wild-boy-condition-revealed

 

Who was Peter the Wild Boy? by Megan Lane

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-14215171

 

Wild stories: why do we find feral children so fascinating? By Marie-Ann Ochota 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/22/feral-child-monkey-girl-jungle-stories-monsters

 

Starved, tortured, forgotten: Genie, the feral child who left a mark on researchers by Rory Carroll

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers

 

The Girl in the Window by Lane Degregory

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle/

 

The Girl, 10 Years Later by Lane Degregory

https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-feral-child-ten-years-later/

 

The Forbidden Experiment by Chris Berube

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/293679-forbidden-experiment

 

How Language Shapes the Brain by Sayuri Hayakawa,

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-language-shapes-the-brain/

 

Linguistically deprived children: meta-analysis of published research underlines

the importance of early syntactic language use for normal brain development by Andrey Vyshedskiy, Shreyas Mahapatra, Rita Dunn

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2017/07/21/166538.full.pdf

 

The King of Scotland’s Peculiar Language Experiment (Paul Anthony Jones, Mental Floss, Feb 2016)

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75378/king-scotlands-peculiar-language-experiment

Videos

Patrick Speaks by Channel 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHfC6jqBhkk

 

The Most Mysterious Boy in History, Random Thursday (Joe Scott, Sep 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiiCvdnoPGc&ab_channel=JoeScott

 

Audio

Episode 11: Feral Children (Hyper Focus, Apr 2021)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4eEnzgamq85X2OSaxmrDG9?si=1Q2Ad31LQDOeWTv3iYDmAw

 

Are Feral Children Real? (Stuff You Should Know, Feb 2018)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XZAclPk4hSJwCWqGHq5wR?si=BtIxtC1OTRCTcde__zrY4Q

 

Feral Children and the True Story Behind the Jungle Book (Ridiculous Histories, Nov 2018)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SAlReECHSSvoaNXpdwDuE?si=SifcRJ27TR29hJ1cIdVa-g

 

The Unlanguaged Mind: A World Built With Words (Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Sep 2015)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6KbVX7ZGkRK5tBJJK15kCD?si=TNC_6oNrR5GoNv-KD5Iyzw