This episode explores the Green Children of Woolpit through the medieval records that made the story famous. Described as speaking an unknown language and bearing an unnatural green hue, the children unsettled both villagers and chroniclers alike. Why has this strange 12th-century encounter become one of England’s most persistent historical mysteries?
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🖼️ Image Attributions
• Vicia faba sl13 (flowering spike) – CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo by Stefan.lefnaer (2022).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicia_faba_sl13.jpg
• Severe iron deficiency anemia – CC BY-SA 4.0. Image by SpicyMilkBoy (2019).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Severe_iron_deficiency_anemia.jpg
• Trees and ferns at King’s Forest, Suffolk – CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo by Sophie Curtis (2018).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trees_and_ferns_at_Kings_Forest,_Suffolk.jpg
• Richard I effigy, Church of Fontevraud Abbey – CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo by Adam Bishop (2011).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Fontevraud_Abbey_Richard_I_effigy.jpg
• Writer Duncan Lunan during presentation of “Children from the Sky” – CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo by McMarcoP (2012).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LunanChildrSky.JPG
• Vicia faba – fève légumineuse – CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo by Lamiot (2008).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vicia_fabaF%C3%A8veL%C3%A9gumineuse,.jpg
• The “green children” of Woolpit on the village sign – CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo by Rod Bacon (2009).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_%22green_children%22_of_Woolpit_on_the_village_sign_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1161413.jpg
• Broad beans in flower, Wood’s Farm – CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo by Steve Daniels (2015).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Broad_beans_in_flower_by_Wood%27s_Farm_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4642047.jpg
• Forest path – CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo by David Pashley (2019).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forest_path_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6029972.jpg
• Abbey ruins and St Edmundsbury Cathedral – CC BY-SA 2.0. Photo by Bob Jones (2010).
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbey_ruins_and_St_Edmundsbury_Cathedral_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1877473.jpg
• Diversity Concept with Two Hands on Wood © TrueCreatives. Used under Canva Pro Content License. Source: Canva Pro. (Image color modified for illustration purposes.)
• Werwolf von Neuses – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werwolf_von_Neuses.png
• Portrait of Johannes Lange (Jo. Langius, archiater palatinus) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Johannes_Lange_Jo._Langius_archiater_palatinus_%28titel_op_object%29_Serie_portretten_van_vijftiende-_en_zestiende-eeuwse_geleerden_%28serietitel%29,_RP-P-1917-507.jpg
• Radulphi de Coggeshall, Chronicon Anglicanum (screenshot, p.118) – Public Domain. Source: Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/ChroniconAnglicanum/page/n159/mode/2up?q=emergentibus
• William of Newburgh, Historia rerum anglicarum (cover) – Public Domain. Source: Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/historiareruman02willgoog/mode/2up
• William of Newburgh, Historia rerum anglicarum (screenshot, p.73) – Public Domain. Source: Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/historiareruman02willgoog/page/n90/mode/2up
• Henry II of England (illumination) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_II_Illumination.jpg
• Bettelnde Kinder (Begging Children) by Meyer von Bremen, 1880 – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meyer_von_Bremen_Bettelnde_Kinder_1880.jpg
• Thomas Keightley (1650–1719) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Keightley_%281650%E2%80%931719%29.jpg
• Church bell (MET sf33-66-3s3) – CC0 / Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell,_Church_MET_sf33-66-3s3.jpg
• Landscape with Cattle by Anders Askevold (1870) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Landscape_with_Cattle%27_by_Anders_Askevold,_1870,_Bergen_Kunstmuseum.JPG
• Glory Road – Science Fiction Magazine (1963) – Public Domain.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glory_Road_(1963).jpg
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