Green Children Appeared in a 12th-Century English Village

In 12th-century England, in a village called Woolpit in Suffolk, during the harvest season, villagers found two children, one boy and one girl, by a wolf pit. Their skin was green, they wore strange clothes, and no one could understand what they said.

The villagers took them back and served them food, but the children would eat nothing. After searching the village for several days, they finally came across some freshly picked bean pods, and they would only eat them raw. The boy fell ill and died soon after, but the girl gradually adapted to human food, and her skin slowly returned to a normal color. She was later taken in by a local knight, learned to speak, was baptized, and got married.

She said she came from a place called "St. Martin's Land," where the light was like twilight, there was no sun, and everyone's skin was green. They had been herding sheep when they heard the sound of bells, walked into a cave, and when they came out, they were here.

The incident is recorded in two medieval chronicles, written by different people, with similar accounts. One was a monk from the end of the 12th century, and the other was a slightly later chronicler; both said they heard it from locals.

Later, some speculated they were orphans from Flanders who got lost while fleeing; others suggested the green color might have been "green sickness" caused by iron deficiency, or something they ate that contained arsenic. None of this can be proven. A sign now stands at the entrance to Woolpit village, depicting two green children.

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