The Mystery of the Green Children from Woolpit

In the British village of Woolpit the story of green children is legendary. Although it sounds like a fairy tale, most of the people still believe that even the generations of their descendants can still be found today. It is said that these mysterious children do not want to eat like the human diet in general, they only consume green beans. Maybe if they are fond of eating eggplant, their body can turn purple: D.

Ok, my best friend, rather than guessing what is not clear about the connection, we just scratched the information.

Quoting from mysteriouspeople.com. The Mystery of the Green Children of Woolpit or the mystery of the green children of Woolpit was popular in the 12th century, precisely in the reign of King Stephen in 1135 to 1154 AD.

The story begins with a strange incident in the village of Woolpit, Suffolk near the city border of Bury St. Edmunds. The people who were harvesting the fields at that time were suddenly startled by two small children who emerged from the trench holes that were used by them as wolf traps.

Strange but real, the boy and girl's skin is green, from the face to all parts of his body. They also wear foreign clothes, like coming from other world civilizations. Looks like the two boys felt confused with the atmosphere around him, the residents approached and asked them. But no one can understand the language of these green children when speaking.

They finally brought to the house of Sir Richard de Calne, a wealthy merchant who owned several plantations and farms in the village of Woolpit. Richard gave the name of the girl Agnes while her sister was not told what her name was, most likely the richness of her fortune.

When living in Sir Richard de Calne's house, the green children did not want to eat at all even though various kinds of food were provided. Until they accidentally see a worker in Sir Richard's house carrying a green bean package, they suddenly ask for it and eat it with gusto.

After a few years later, these strange skinned green children have been able to adapt to the surrounding community. They also learned to eat other than the green bean menu, and because of that the green color on their bodies increasingly faded and their skin became white.

told the younger brother suffered from severe depression, severe illness and he died. While her older sister can adjust to the living habits of the Wollpit people and have fluent English after private courses. He also grew up to be a very beautiful, supple and fresh adult woman (emang ager-ager: D), told that he was baptized and converted to Christianity.

Until one day the green woman married a handsome man with a thin mustache like a razor from the Lavenham nobility, the border of the Norfolk region. His name was added to Agnes Barre, clan of her husband who was still a close relative of the English King Henry II.

That said, until now among British society still believed that the nobility who had the last name Barre was the direct descendant of Agnes Barre, the green woman. One of the most famous figures in the UK who was his direct descendant was Sir Joh Barre and Earl Ferrers.

later on the mystery of the green children of Woolpit was finally revealed by William of Newbridge and Ralph of Cogestal a famous historian of the 12th century, they heard this story directly from Sir Richard de Calne's own admission.

In the documentation entitled History of English Affairs (William's Historia rerum Anglicarum, Historia de rebus anglicis), which tells the history of the British country in the early 1066 to 1198 era they also 'tucked in' the story of the green children of Woolpit, although many parties who doubted the truth and considered their story to be just a myth and folklore.

The theory that uncovers plausible and most accepted green children's facts was put forward by Paul Harris at Fortean in 1998. According to Paul Harris's explanation before entering the reign of King Henry II (not the reign of King Stephen), in Eastern England many migrations of Flemish traders from Belgium and the Netherlands.

But when Henry II ascended to the throne as King, these Flemish merchants were heavily persecuted due to the battle of St.Edmund in 1173. This conflict became more widespread and caused thousands of Flemish merchants to become victims of the massacre.

The connection of these events with the mysterious green children, most likely they were the descendants of merchants, and the mes house (temporary housing) they were in Fornham St. Martin, not so far away, a few miles from the location of Woolpit village which was only restricted to the great river Lark.

When the massacre took place, their parents could have been caught, but the fate of both of them was 'lucky' to escape into the forest of Thetford Forest, where the forest was very dark and had little sunshine.

During the 'survival' in the forest they starve and experience malnutrition, called Chlorosis or also known as Green Sickness, where the sufferer will experience a change in skin color to green.

In addition to the Green Sickness phenomenon, medical medicine is also known as the Argyria rare disease which causes sufferers to experience normal skin discoloration to bluish gray or dark gray (hyperpigmentation). Argyria's disease can be caused by deposition of silver particles in the skin or genetic abnormalities in the body.

Whereas when they looked for a way out, they most likely heard the sound of bells from the church in St.Edmund and after following the source of the sound they made it to the village of Woolpit. About the strangeness of those who saw the dazzling rays was natural, because they had not seen sunlight for a long time.

And about the foreign clothes they wear are considered to come from other worlds by the residents, because green children are not native but migrants from Flemish (Belgium or the Netherlands). Likewise the language they use, of course not understood and sounds foreign to the ears of Woolpit residents.

But one big question puzzle that I have not been able to answer, why Agnes Barre when she was an adult and already understood the local language (English), had to lie and compose stories from the country of Saint Martin whose entire population was green. Why is he not honest, if his parents and brothers from Flemish are victims of a massacre.

"I don't know the story of the green kids from Woolpit seems to always be the most perplexing mystery for us British people," said Paul Harris.
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