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An Ancient Portal to Another Dimension and The Mysterious Green Children of 1173
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The harvest had come to Woolpit, a small village in the countryside of Suffolk, England. In the dappled light of one late summer in the 12th century, reapers worked the fields near the ancient wolf-trapping pits from which the village took its name.
But on this particular day, their work halted as an extraordinary sight emerged from the shadows of one such pit: two children—skin tinged a peculiar shade of green and dressed in strange, unfamiliar clothes.
Unable to communicate in any language the villagers understood, the children seemed bewildered and lost. According to William of Newburgh, the chronicler who first recorded the tale, the harvesters, unsure of what else to do, seized the children and brought them into the village.
In a separate account by Ralph of Coggeshall, a knight by the name of Sir Richard de Calne intervened. Moved by the strange sight, he took the children to his manor, where they were treated with great care.
Both chroniclers noted that the children refused food for days, leaving their caretakers anxious. No bread, no fruit, no cooked meals could tempt them. It seemed their fate was sealed by starvation until one day, raw beans were placed before them.
The children, at first mistaking the bean stalks for the edible portion, wept when they found no food inside. Eventually, the beans were shelled, and the children devoured them eagerly.
Time passed, and the children slowly adapted. They learned the language of the people around them, and their green skin faded to the natural tones of the English countryside. But the boy, frail from the start, did not live long after being baptized.
The girl, however, grew stronger. Ralph of Coggeshall described her as sharp-witted, though possessing a wildness that some found troubling. He wrote that she was, quote, “very wanton and impudent” as she matured.
Despite this, she integrated into Sir Richard de Calne’s household and eventually married a man from the town of King’s Lynn, where she lived out her days in relative normalcy—or as normal as one might expect after such a strange beginning.
But it wasn’t the children's physical appearance that intrigued the villagers most—it was the story they eventually told. After learning English, the girl spoke of coming from a place called St. Martin’s Land, a country where the sun never fully rose.
They lived in a kind of permanent twilight, she said, in a land that shimmered green. How they arrived in Woolpit was a mystery even to them.
She recounted that they had been herding their father’s cattle when a sound like distant church bells drew them into a cave. Wandering in the darkness, they found themselves lost, until they finally stumbled into the bright light of a world they had never known. When they tried to return to the cave, they found no trace of the entrance, as though it had disappeared from the earth altogether.
The villagers were left with more questions than answers. Who were these children? Where had they come from? And perhaps most unsettling—what had they left behind?
But on this particular day, their work halted as an extraordinary sight emerged from the shadows of one such pit: two children—skin tinged a peculiar shade of green and dressed in strange, unfamiliar clothes.
Unable to communicate in any language the villagers understood, the children seemed bewildered and lost. According to William of Newburgh, the chronicler who first recorded the tale, the harvesters, unsure of what else to do, seized the children and brought them into the village.
In a separate account by Ralph of Coggeshall, a knight by the name of Sir Richard de Calne intervened. Moved by the strange sight, he took the children to his manor, where they were treated with great care.
Both chroniclers noted that the children refused food for days, leaving their caretakers anxious. No bread, no fruit, no cooked meals could tempt them. It seemed their fate was sealed by starvation until one day, raw beans were placed before them.
The children, at first mistaking the bean stalks for the edible portion, wept when they found no food inside. Eventually, the beans were shelled, and the children devoured them eagerly.
Time passed, and the children slowly adapted. They learned the language of the people around them, and their green skin faded to the natural tones of the English countryside. But the boy, frail from the start, did not live long after being baptized.
The girl, however, grew stronger. Ralph of Coggeshall described her as sharp-witted, though possessing a wildness that some found troubling. He wrote that she was, quote, “very wanton and impudent” as she matured.
Despite this, she integrated into Sir Richard de Calne’s household and eventually married a man from the town of King’s Lynn, where she lived out her days in relative normalcy—or as normal as one might expect after such a strange beginning.
But it wasn’t the children's physical appearance that intrigued the villagers most—it was the story they eventually told. After learning English, the girl spoke of coming from a place called St. Martin’s Land, a country where the sun never fully rose.
They lived in a kind of permanent twilight, she said, in a land that shimmered green. How they arrived in Woolpit was a mystery even to them.
She recounted that they had been herding their father’s cattle when a sound like distant church bells drew them into a cave. Wandering in the darkness, they found themselves lost, until they finally stumbled into the bright light of a world they had never known. When they tried to return to the cave, they found no trace of the entrance, as though it had disappeared from the earth altogether.
The villagers were left with more questions than answers. Who were these children? Where had they come from? And perhaps most unsettling—what had they left behind?
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