The Green Children of Woolpit: Fairies, Aliens, or Something Else?

According to legend, two green children wandered into a village in 12th-century Suffolk. No one knew who they were or where they came from. Their refusal to eat and unfamiliar language made locals wary. Over time, they gradually assimilated, and told a fantastic story of their origins.

Were they fairies? Lost children with big imaginations? Extraterrestrials? The fever dream of medieval chroniclers?

Let's take a look in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!

[TheSianFromAtlantis]

I first encountered this story in an issue of Prediction my dad had when I was little. That one made it part of a series on fairies.

Fascinated by the St Martin connection. Did some work on him some years ago, because of the strangeness of his story, as an independently attested historical figure whose biography includes miraculous resurrections on the same page as interactions in bishop's councils and his rebuke of Julian the Apostate.

[AinaMuela]

thank you for the story, I think the theory that they come from scandinavia makes sense, eating beans, being christian and speaking a foreign language, telling that they come from a land of permanent twilight and also luminous, this last thing being the main reason why I could imagine this theory true, the mystery, will remain a mystery anyhow :)

[ret]

Think they might of come from Denby Dale. Another great vid cheers