@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt8082w.3, ISBN = {9780773529724}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt8082w.3}, abstract = {THESE TWO ACCOUNTS, one from 1344 (but printed in the late sixteenth century) and the other from 1962 (but reported in the early 1990s), tell stories of encounters with strange children in unusual circumstances and of the responses the children elicited in the adults who saw and took charge of them.¹ The events are separated by more than six hundred years, and yet the two accounts, like the many other stories of “wild children,” are intriguingly similar – and enduringly fascinating. For more than four hundred years such stories have been recorded, circulated and reproduced, mainly (but not exclusively) in Europe}, bookauthor = {ADRIANA S. BENZAQUÉN}, booktitle = {Encounters with Wild Children: Temptation and Disappointment in the Study of Human Nature}, pages = {3--12}, publisher = {McGill-Queen's University Press}, title = {Introduction}, year = {2006} }