List of fictional feral children

Feral children, children who have lived from a young age without human contact, appear in mythological and fictional works, usually as human characters who have been raised by animals.

Often their dual heritage is a benefit to them, protecting them from the corrupting influence of human society, such as in Tarzan.

In most tales, the child is lost or abandoned, such as in Tarzan and Romulus and Remus respectively.

They are then found and adopted in a chance encounter with a sympathetic wild animal.

[Note 4] [1] These films have fiction and two are based on true stories:

Mowgli (by John Lockwood Kipling ), represents the modern idea of a feral child.