MYESTERY OF THE GREEN CHILDREN OF WOOLPIT

  During the reign of king Stephen of England,there was a strange occurrence in the village of Woolpit.At the harvest time,when the reapers were working in the field,two young children emerged from deep ditches excavated to trap wolves.The children,a boy and a girl,had skin tinged with a green hue,and wore clothes of a strange color,made from unfamiliar materials.They wandered around for a few minutes,before the reapers took them to the village.Because no one could understand the language the children spoke,they were taken to  the local land owner.Here they broke into tears and refused to eat the bread and other food that was brought to them.For days the children ate nothing until the villagers brought them recently harvested beans.It was said the children survived on this food for many months until they acquired the test of bread.As the time passed,the boy who appeared to be the younger of two,become depressed,sickened and died,but the girl adjusted to her new life and was baptized.Her skin gradually lost its original green color and she become a healthy young woman.She learned the English language and married a man at king's Lynn.When she was later questioned about her past ,she stated that the girl and the boy were brother and sister,and had come from 'the land of saints' martin' where it was perpetual twilight and all the inhabitants were green in color like they had been.She remembered that one day they were looking after their father's herds in the field and had followed in to the cavern,where they heard the loud sound of bells.Entranced,they wandered through the darkness for a long time until they arrived  at the mouth of the cave,where they were immediately blinded by the glaring sunlight.They lay down in a daze,before the reapers terrified them and they rose and tried to escape,but were unable to locate the entrance of the cavern before being caught.