We are used to scary stories in which a man transforms into a wolf on the nights of the full moon and destroys everything in his path, but remains what he is, a legend. However, there is a documented case of two werewolves (not werewolves, a term more used in the slang of the night) that I had not heard of until today.
If I talk to you about Tarzan, the Disney factory will immediately come to mind, but behind the magic of the film, the story is told of a little boy raised by the jungle monkeys who one day returns to civilization. This type of feral children have also existed in real life, being discovered at specific moments throughout history and awakening the curiosity of psychologists and scientists, who see in the study of their reintegration into society an opportunity to find out the intricacies of human behavior.
The case of the Indian girls aged 3 and 6 Amala and Kamala, found by a reverend in the burrow that a wolf had formed in an old termite nest near a small Indian village, draws attention. The reverend, in an attempt to save the girls, killed the mother wolf who had been taking care of them and rescued them back to civilization with the aim of achieving their social reintegration, but fate was harder on them than their time in the wild.
Upon arriving at the village, after being examined by doctors and other specialists (including psychologists), it was concluded that they were not sisters and had had to be adopted by the wolf at different times.
Their behavior was that of wild animals: they spent their time huddled in a corner howling and all attempts to bring them closer to society were in vain, as the babies took off their clothes by biting and only ate with a group of dogs that lived outside the detention center. There are those who say that they had abilities “inherited” from the wolf such as a developed sense of smell and the power to see in the dark, but what is true is that little Kamala died a year after being rescued, which gave rise to weeks of howling from her “sister” Amala, who died 9 years later due to typhoid fever and rests next to Kamala, being until today the two women-wolves of the history.