forest-child

Updated: May 9, 2025

The wild forest-child had found himself suddenly at death-grips with the Enchanter whom he had feared, and almost worshipped, for so long; and behold, to his own wonder, he was no more a child, but grown into a man, and the stronger, if not the cunninger of the two. There had been a spell upon him; the 'Romani nominis umbra. But from that day the spell was broken.

Charles Kingsley - The Roman and the Teuton : A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge