For the Fourth episode, I wanted to touch on a strange and unusual story, that of the Green Children of Woolpit. It's a legend so old, we're unsure of when it originated, with many potential reasons and speculations about the children's origins.
If you would like to watch this episode, it can be found on Youtube: https://youtu.be/CzlLcPV6Ga8
Resources:
EXTRA: Ralph of Coggeshall's Account of the Green Children | Anomalies: the Strange & Unexplained (anomalyinfo.com)
Chronicon Anglicanum - The British Library (bl.uk)
Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum, De expugnatione Terræ Sanctæ libellus, Thomas Agnellus De morte et sepultura Henrici regis Angliæ junioris, Gesta Fulconis filii Warini, excerpta ex Otiis imperialibus Gervasius Tileburiensis. Ex codicibus manuscriptis edidit Josephus Stevenson : Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Woolpit - Wikipedia
In medieval times the range of the wolf covered a large part of Europe (ukwct.org.uk)
The Green Children of Woolpit | The Haunted Palace (wordpress.com)
The Green Children of Woolpit. The Green-Skinned Kids Who Spoke an… | by Alexander Yung | History of Yesterday
File:Babes in the Wood - 7 - illustrated by Randolph Caldecott - Project Gutenberg eText 19361.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
The Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit | Mental Floss
The Green Children of Woolpit: A 12th century mystery that still baffles historians | MRU MEDIA (mysteriesrunsolved.com)
Green Children of Woolpit Village - Historic Mysteries
The Medieval Green Children of Woolpit — They Were Green | by Lioness Rue | Lessons from History | Aug, 2021 | Medium
The Green Children of Woolpit: A Medieval Encounter with Aliens, the Fae – or Orphans of War? - #FolkloreThursday
The Green Children of Woolpit. The Green-Skinned Kids Who Spoke an… | by Alexander Yung | History of Yesterday
The Green Children of Woolpit: the 12th century legend of visitors from another world | Ancient Origins (ancient-origins.net)
The Green Children of Woolpit | The Haunted Palace (wordpress.com)
Green Children of Woolpit actually existed? Here's their true story (scientificmystery.com)
Suffolk's strangest folk story - The green children of Woolpit - Suffolk Live