“Stories of children rescued from the wilderness have for centuries inspired awe, fascination and disbelief; (a review of) a phenomenon that helps to define the frontier between human and animal.” Fortean Times

“Come on, poor babe:

Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens

To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say,

Casting their savageness aside, have done

Like offices of pity.”

[Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale, Act II, scene 3, line 185.]