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With the World, or Bound to Face the Sky: the Postures of the Wild-Child of Hesse

Chapter of: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects(pp. 9–34)

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TitleWith the World, or Bound to Face the Sky
Subtitlethe Postures of the Wild-Child of Hesse
ContributorKarl Steel(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.03
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/animal-vegetable-mineral-ethics-and-objects/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightSteel, Karl
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-05-07
Long abstractThe Chronicle of the Benedictine monastery of Saint Peter of Erfurt, in Thuringia, includes two records of boys raised by wolves: 1304 Anno Domini MCCCIIII. Quidam puer in partibus Hassie est deprehensus. Hic, sicut postea cognitum est, et sicut ipse retulit, cum trium esset annorum, a lupis est captus et mirabiliter educatus. Nam, quamcumque predam lupi pro cibo rapuerant, semper meliorem partem sumentes et arbori circum-iacientes ipsi ad vorandum tribuebant. Tempore vero hiemis et frigoris foveam facientes, folia arborum et alias herbas impo-nentes, puerum superponebant, et se circum-ponentes, sic eum a frigore defendebant; ipsum eciam manibus et pedibus repere cogebant et secum currere tamdiu, quod ex use eorum velocitatem imitabatur et saltus maximos faciebat. Hic deprehensus lignis circumligatis erectus ire ad humanam simili-tudinem cogebatur. Idem vero puer sepius dicebat se multo carius cum lupis, si in se esset, quam cum hominibus diligere conver-sari. Hic puer in curiam Heinrici principis Hassie pro spectaculo est allatus.1[A certain boy in the region of Hesse was seized. This boy, as was known afterwards, and just as the boy told it himself, was taken by wolves when he was three years old and raised up wondrously. For, whatever prey the wolves snatched for food, they would take the better part and allot it to him to eat while they lay around a tree. In the time of winter and cold, they made a pit, and they put the leaves of trees and other plants in it, and placed them on the boy, surrounding him to protect him from the cold; they also compelled him to creep on hands and feet and to run with them for a long time, from which practice he imitated their speed and was able to make the greatest leaps. When he was seized, he was bound with wood to compel him to go erect in a human likeness. However, this boy often said that if it were up to him he much preferred to live among wolves than among men. This boy was conveyed to the court of Henry, Prince of Hesse, for a spectacle.]
Page rangepp. 9–34
Print length26 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)