#Anecdote# #Wolf Child#
Yesterday I told you about an Indian wolf child, and today I will tell you a real wolf child story, which happened in the last century.
Spanish man Max, who was abandoned at the age of 6, after several twists and turns, was taken in by a pack of wolves at the age of 7, and until he was found, he had lived with the wolves for 12 years. Max is the famous "wolf child" in Spain.
In 1946, in the Spanish province of Cordoba, there was a family, living in poverty, the mother died, leaving the father and three children, because the World War II had just ended, the poor people lived a life of lack of livelihood, the hard-working father could not support three children, so he gave two brothers to relatives, alone with the youngest child Max.
Later, the father found a stepmother, and the stepmother also brought the child, so the stepmother had a very bad attitude toward Max, and for three days the two ends scolded Max for some trivial things. He was also forced to do housework at the age of 4, otherwise he would not be given food.
Two years later, the 6-year-old Max was sent to herd sheep for the landlord's house, and as a result, he encountered a wolf pack, fortunately Max escaped the disaster, and the sheep were attacked by the wolves, killing and injuring many people.
You must know that these sheep belong to the landlord's family, and there are so many deaths and injuries that the whole family cannot afford to eat or drink for a year. In the end, there was no way, at the instigation of his stepmother, Max was tearfully sold by his father to the landlord to pay the debt, and then the landlord gave max, who was only 6 years old, to an old shepherd in the old forest in the mountains as a companion, and went there to help the landlord herd sheep.
In the time that followed, the old shepherd taught Max a lot of wild survival skills and to be friends with wolves.
Later, when a new Spanish government was formed, the landlords ran and fled, and Max and the old shepherds who were far away in the mountains and old forests were forgotten. The old shepherd then died, leaving the lone Max alone and a flock of sheep.
Since then, the seven- or eight-year-old Max has been alone in the mountains, hunting sheep all day long, and the wolf eats max to eat the remaining sheep bones without eating, sometimes living with the wolves day and night, just like this, slowly getting acquainted with the wolves, Max and the wolves all day, because no one talks, Max gradually loses the ability to speak, hunts with the wolves, plays together, learns to call wolves, communicates with wolves, just like close friends, and lives like this for 12 years.
It wasn't until 1965, at the age of 19, that he was finally discovered, forced to bring back to modern society, and then re-taught him speaking and other skills, only to learn simple life skills many years later.
In 2010, a Spanish director adapted his real experience into a movie called "Among the Wolves", which basically restored his real experience from a human to a wolf child and back to a human. If you are interested, you can go and watch it.
