The Green Children of Woolpit ║S1E4 Through the Blackthorn Arch
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
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Yes...I do talk a lot with my hands, I'm so focussed on the story I forget to sit on them, whoops.
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, that we're unsure of when it originated, with many potential reasons and speculations about the children's origins.
This is a re-post from my podcast, originally posted 9th November 2021
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Wolf Pit Image: Wolfsgrube.JPG (4000×3000) (wikimedia.org)
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
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This is a very interesting story. Oddly, I was watching another one of your videos, then decided I needed to watch another lady’s video on the Fae. Then I watched this one. Something in me knew I needed to prep before watching this video.
We want more myths legends n stories like these, pleasasseeeeeeee
I remember hearing this story with slightly different details or perhaps a different story entirely of green children found in a cave in France and I believe it was the late 1800's . They too came from a land of perpetual twilght. So intertesting ! Also, I love your make up 💛
Thank you for this video! I have loved that story ever since I first read about it Time Life's "The Enchanted World" series. It is very compelling, even if simply taken as a story. But, I had never thought the possibility that it could have begun as a matter of actual lost foreign children, with faerie elements added as the story was passed along.
I am currently reading about the Radium Girls. That was barely a hundred years ago, in an educated society, yet their suffering was ignored for so long. Their glowing skin and clothing was seen as a beautiful perk of the job. I wonder what the people of Middle Ages would have thought, had they seen them.
I'm glad you said the "F" word! From the jump it's all I could think, but I also have an obsession with the other folk. I'm from the Appalachian mountains and find it particularly interesting that this ancient mountain range actually continues under the ocean and connects to the hilly green isles of your region. I think this literal land connection explains the extra level of similarities that seems to exist between Otherkin lore of Eastern N America and the Anglo Celtic Isles. This Appalachian connection even extends to NW Africa where surely even more uncanny similarities are to be found.
The Appalachian mountains were home to the Appalachia Native tribe. They lived there for thousands of years. European/UK people have only been there for a few hundred years. It's possible that some brought their own spirits with them or called them up from the spirit world. However, non-Native people are not indigenous to the North American continent. There is always an attempt to self-Indigenize by Appalachian people who conveniently try to erase the original people who signed treaties with the U.S. government and sometimes we're forced by the military to march westward. Thousands of Native people lived in the mountains and have ties to those lands. What you're describing is your own feeling of disconnect with your own ancestors and ties to the European continent. It has nothing to do with the continents being connected millions of years ago. There is nothing to that original continent that excuses your denial and erasure of an entire people who lived there.
It’s not the land. It’s that the settlers where originally from Ireland and Scotland. They brought the lore and mythology with them.
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The majority of the early settlers were actually English. But I suppose they don't count.
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Absolutely obsessed with these folklore stories!
Thanks so much for covering this! I grew up close to Woolpit and one of our school plays was focused on this tale. It’s fascinated me ever since.
I heard of this story once before, and it was great to hear you go over it in such detail. Fae were definitely the first thing that entered my mind when I first heard this. I wonder if eating a diet that is entirely green can make your skin that color the same way eating too many carrots can make your skin orange.
Wonderful storytelling, thank you! I'm glad this popped up on You Tube, and look forward to more. For me, the theory that the original story of lost children acquired a faery overlay makes sense, and enhances the mystery and wonder of the tale.
I listened to this yesterday morning and it was so fascinating that I asked my family if they'd like to listen to it as well later that day. My daughter (she's 7) came up with the theory that the kids (and all the other people) were green because they only ate green foods were they were from and since her diet changed once she got to woolpit, her skin changed along with it. She also reminded her brother that it's important to eat your veggies and try new things 🙈🤣 life with kids.
Anyway, it was so cool to have my family so interested and engaged. Thank you for sharing it with us.
This reminds me of Outlander. Like how Clair goes through the stone.
I love hearing you always spell out your name 🥰
I thought immediately of a people living in a dense forest. The leaves would dim the light to an eternal twilight and would also maybe tint everything around them green. From the edge of the forest they'd be able to see a bright land and also the river. However I don't know whether there were still dense forests like this in 12th century England.
This was absolutely fascinating! Faeries were my first thought as well.
I love these legends and stories from Celtic and pagan myths
Yesss, this gets me every time too! 💚 I’ve thought about it so much over the years also & I’ve thought over the same theories as you’ve brought up here. I really can’t decide which theory I believe is most likely to be true…I wish there was a way to find out! It’s unfortunate that the girl didn’t marry someone prominent, with being taken in by the Knight, because then we’d have actual records of her…It’s such a shame she & her brother have been lost to time…You’re so great at storytelling by the way…I have watched you for a few years, but I never usually comment…Thank you for a great video! 💚
Thank you for this story! Very well researched. I appreciate your time looking into this and conveying it to us. It’s so intriguing! I hope they were fae :)
Hearth, have you read Brian Froud and Ari Berk's book The Runes of Elfland?
It is a fascinating and beautiful read! The story of The Green Children appears in it, ad well as other stories of enchantment, with lessons and magick that can be gleaned from them.
I've always been fascinated by this story; Woolpit isn't far from me. This was really well researched, well done.
Awesome 👌 and thanks for your story telling.
what a fascinating historical account, and well told. thank you hearth!
love this podcast so much, the UK has such a rich supernatural and folklore history and im obsessed
That was ABSOLUTELY fascinating! 🥰🤗💖🇨🇦
Fascinating story! I'm loving these folk tales so much and look forward to hearing more! Love the eye make up 💚💚💚
I love this and i mean it ! This relieves my anxiety i mean i listen to your podcasts / videos while having a warm cup of green tea and it is so soothing also it is raining now a days so its like a miracle ! 😩🛐🧿❤️
Always an interesting story.
I’ve always got a Fair Folk vibe from this story too.
Another amazing episode, Hearth!
Only thinking on green skin, maybe it was stained green by something they were always around? And if they lived underground, maybe their clothes were laced with copper somehow, making that green rash you get xD I do love this one
Children From the Sky by Duncan Lunan presents a rather lengthy and well researched argument for either extraterrestrial or extradimensional visitation.
I love this story so much!
I've been to pittenweem on holiday, this has saddened me.
Regardless this is totally fascinating 💚
What if they were human children stolen by the fae? That’s quite common in Irish mythology, fae misleading children, perhaps they lived in a bioluminescence cavern system with fae?
Just my theory based on what I’m hearing
This story is completely new to me. The green skin suggests maybe the kids were some sort of undead and the pit was their grave. The realm they come from might be similar to Hades since they had to cross a river back to the land of the living.
Really enjoyed the story. My wife and I are getting into witchcraft, any tips on how to strengthen our abilities?
I would go with the chlorosis theory...the girl ate better, and got over it. If their skin was naturally green, that probably wouldn't have changed... that's my guess, anyway.
i think this story is a mish-mash of many folk stories about the fae, and probably none of it actually happened (is not rare to find fictional stories that incorporate some historical figure as a character, but that doesn't make the story any less fictional). it would be interesting to search for other european folk stories about lost children/faery children and see their common elements, and try to find the original story that inspired all others.
I live quite near Woolpit
I of course do not know the true answer, but I like the idea of them being children of the far who accidentally opened a portal into our world and did not know how to cross back.
Thanks Hearth
This story reminds me of the hollow earth stories of the 19th century.
It’s all very interesting. I’m really enjoying this podcast on RUclips 💜
I found this interesting.
Voltaire believed the Earth was hallow.
Maybe it’s a bit of both. Perhaps they were from another peoples and had a nutrient deficiency? 🧐
I think that they were Fae. And I'd love to live where they came from. 😇😀😈
Lovely story Hearth. This is my first time hearing of the Green Children. Would love to hear more stories involving the Fae 🧚🏻♀️🌿🍄