Bear girl from Krupina

The bear girl from Krupina ( from carp , or partly from Fraumark ) was a wild girl from the then still Hungarian Krupina , who was discovered in 1767 in the mountains of Hont county . The scientific term used for a long time for their appearance was Puella Karpfensis as a subtype of the Homo Ferus ( Latin: "wild man" ) defined by Carl von Linné .

In 1767, residents of the Hungarian county of Hont chased a bear in the mountains . They came to a cave and found a naked, wild girl there. The brown-skinned woman, about 18 years old, was tall, looked frightened, and behaved roughly.

She was forcibly dragged out of the cave and taken to Krupina, a small town in Sohl County . There she was locked in a madhouse . The bear girl only ate raw meat, like other wolf children .

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, p. 289.
2. ↑ Edouard Séguin : Idiocy: And it's treatment by the physiological method ( Memento of the original of February 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 813 kB) . Translation of the Engl. Version from 1907, Vienna, 1912, p. 19.  
3. ↑ Carl von Linné: Systema naturae  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 10th edition of 1758  
4. ^ PJ Blumenthal : Kaspar Hauser's siblings - in search of the wild man , Piper Verlag GmbH, March 2005, ISBN 3-492-24101-8