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Amala (c. 1918 – 21 September 1921 [1]) and Kamala (c. 1912 – 14 November 1929) were two " feral girls" from Midnapore, Bengal (Currently West Bengal), India, who were alleged to have been raised by a wolf family. Their story attracted substantial mainstream attention and debate. However, the account was reported and promoted by only one ...
Clinical lycanthropy is a rare psychiatric syndrome that involves a delusion that the affected person can transform into, has transformed into, or is, a non-human animal. [ 1 ] Its name is associated with the mythical condition of lycanthropy, a supernatural affliction in which humans are said to physically shapeshift into wolves. [ 2 ]
A feral child (also called wild child) is a young individual who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, with little or no experience of human care, social behavior, or language. Such children lack the basics of primary and secondary socialization. [ 1 ] The term is used to refer to children who have suffered severe abuse ...
Clinical vampirism, more commonly known as Renfield's syndrome, is an obsession with drinking blood. The earliest presentation of clinical vampirism in psychiatric literature was a psychoanalytic interpretation of two cases, contributed by Richard L. Vanden Bergh and John. F. Kelley. [ 1 ] As the authors point out, over 50,000 people addicted ...
In The Cow, an Iranian movie by Dariush Mehrjui the protagonist, Masht Hassan, lives in a cowshed and eats hay after being led to believe that his beloved dairy cow has run away. In his delusion, he speaks on the cow's behalf, claiming under the guise of the cow that her master (Hassan himself) is still watching over her from outside the cowshed.
Hypertrichosis (often mistakenly classified as hirsutism) is a well documented condition in horses with a hormonal disorder of the hypothalamus, called Cushing's disease. It is the most common endocrine disease of the middle-aged to older horse, often resulting in fatal laminitis.
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard (see Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard). Gypsy-Rose was Dee Dee's proxy and suffered over a decade of medical abuse [citation needed] before rebelling and killing Dee Dee with the help of her boyfriend, Nick; Gypsy Rose and Nick were later convicted and sent to prison. Gypsy-Rose has been released from prison as of December 28th ...
Anna Ecklund. Anna Ecklund was a pseudonym for Emma Schmidt (March 23, 1882 – July 23, 1941), an American woman whose alleged demonic possession and exorcism occurred over several decades, culminating in an extensive exorcism that lasted from August 18 to December 23, 1928, in Earling, Iowa. Ecklund was said to have exhibited symptoms akin to ...