Often an analogy used to express the old world ideas of someone being raised out of their cultural environment.

It has been said in legends that a child had been abandoned by its parents and raised by a wild pack of dogs. Also the basic kernel of an idea mutated by Walt Disney Corp. originally presented by Rudyard Kipling of likely an older legend from oral history.
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