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What's /x/ opnion on the Green children of Woolpit?
"The legend of the green children of Woolpit concerns two children of unusual skin colour who reportedly appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, England, some time in the 12th century, perhaps during the reign of King Stephen. The children, brother and sister, were of generally normal appearance except for the green colour of their skin. They spoke in an unknown language, and would only eat raw broad beans. Eventually they learned to eat other food and lost their green pallor, but the boy was sickly and died soon after he and his sister were baptised. The girl adjusted to her new life, but she was considered to be "rather loose and wanton in her conduct".[2] After she learned to speak English, the girl explained that she and her brother had come from Saint Martin's Land, a subterranean world inhabited by green people."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit
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>>19555787
I'd fug one
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>>19555787
People used to be more retarded than nowadays and if today people believe in demons and flat earth you can only image how fucked up fairytales were back then.
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>>19556195
lel all my this right here
also, daily reminder if you believe any of aforementioned things including magick, doomsday, etc etc you are literal cancer to the human race
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It's like Kaspar Hauser meets Grimm's Fairy Tales.
I read about this story when I was 8 and it both frightened and intrigued me.
1. Why would it be made up? (fairy tales have morals, but this is just a random account).
2. How could it be real though?
I remember my mother saying the children must have been from a persecuted group who hid in forests, etc, and stained themselves green for protection. This seems a bit cinematic to me now.
I think it could be real to a point. That is, some random children appeared in town (notable in those days when very little inter-village movement occurred). They might have been dressed in green or something and then as the gossip spread the rumors grew into myth and as time passed the children became "green" mysterious beings.
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