The Mysterious Story About The Green Two Children

Welcome my Friends today we going to go deeper into history to spot strange stories you will see and read we going to go to an earlier age in Europe so are you ready to go together deep in time and place?

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The Story :

• Our story took place in a small village called Woolpit, located in Suffolk, England.

• It is the summer season in one of its green fields, and it is time to harvest.

• During the reign of King Stephen (1135-1154), some villagers were sitting to rest in the field, and suddenly they saw two strange children (a boy and a girl) standing next to one of the pits used to hunt wolves,

King Stephen

• It is worth noting that the village was known for hunting wolves, hence its name during the Anglo-Saxon days (wulf-pytt).

• The villagers rushed to the two children, grabbed them, and took them immediately to the home of (Richard de Calne), one of the major landowners in the village.

• The appearance of the two children was strange and surprising because their skin was dark green, their clothes were strange and unfamiliar, and they spoke in incomprehensible language. And they were crying constantly.

• Mr. (Richard) thought for a moment that the two children were dyed green, so he grabbed the girl's hand and rubbed it well, but the color did not change.

• Meanwhile, dozens of villagers had gathered around Mr. Richard’s house windows to see the two green children.

• After a while, the food was placed in front of the two children, and they looked at the bread and fruit in astonishment, as if they had not seen food before, and had not eaten anything.

• During their stay in his house, Mr. Richard studied the two children's features and found them to be normal, but tended to have African features, and the eyes were sunken and almond-shaped.

• Within 5 days, the two children only drank water, which made them very weak and emaciated, and Mr. Richard did not succeed in reaching the type of food acceptable to them. One day the villagers came with some green beans, and as soon as the two children saw the plant, they rushed towards it and ate it greedily, and since that time they did not eat any other food except the beans!

• It appears that the period of fasting has harmed the boy's health. Despite his desire to eat beans, he began to weaken until he died a month later and was buried in the village cemetery. As for the girl, she continued to grow and became a servant in Mr. Richard's house, over time she got used to eating from the rest of the food, so her green color disappeared from her, and she gradually learned the basics of the English language, and when she became able to speak, Mr. Richard asked her about her country of origin, and her answer impressed him. When she said that she came from a land where the sun does not shine (perhaps this is the reason for the color of the green skin) and that their land is lit by the light of perpetual dusk and everything in it is green, and that there is, as far as they can see, another country or land that is lit by perpetual light and it is located next to their country or their land, but a wide river separates the two lands.

• Asked about how she and her brother arrived in the English village, she said: “We were tending to my father’s animals when we suddenly heard a great noise resembling the ringing of bells.

• That was what the girl said, or perhaps all she knew. She lived in Mr. Richard's house until she reached the age of youth, and she was distinguished by her primitive and crude behavior, but in terms of form she was no different from other women, and it was said that she got married later, then she was lost and there was no news of her. It was also said that she died shortly after her marriage and was buried next to her brother.

The Village Place :

• Woolpit is located in the county of Suffolk, East Anglia, about 7 miles (11 km) west of Bury St Edmunds. It dates back to the Middle Ages to Bury St Edmunds Abbey and was part of one of the more densely populated areas of rural England. The writers Ralph Coggshill and William Newburgh wrote an account of their sudden and unexplained arrival in the village of two colored children in the twelfth century. Ralph was abbot of a Benedictine monastery at Coggshill, about 26 miles (42 km) south of Woolpit. While William was a priest at the Augustinian Abbey of Newburgh far to the north in Yorkshire. William says that his report in the Historia Reram Anglicram relies on "reports from several reliable sources"; Ralph's reports in the Chronicon Anglicanum, written sometime in the 1220s, including information from Sir Richard de Calne of Wykes, whose farm is said to have been a refuge for the two children, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Woolpit. The reports given by both authors differ in some details.

So do you think it’s a real or fake story?

• My friend sure you may ask about the source of this story (and this is your right), so I say that this story was mentioned in a book in Latin called - History of English Affairs - written by William of Newburgh (1136-1198), an English monk and historian, and he mentioned Clearly in his book he recounted the story quoting several reliable witnesses. 

• The second source is also in Latin - it was the language of writing prevailing in England at the time - and its name is Chronicon Anglicanum by Ralph Coggshill (died 1228), who was also a monk.

• Of course, there is no great difference in the two sources' versions of the story, as they are both contemporary with the time in which it happened, but Ralph Coggshill claimed that he heard it directly from Sir Richard and some members of his family. Also, his version of how the two children arrived in England differs slightly, as he said that the two children were tending to their father's animals when they heard the ringing of bells coming from a cave and that they entered the cave and were lost for a while before they came out from the other side to find themselves in the middle of the English countryside, etc.

But what is the explanation of this story?

• Two approaches have dominated the process of interpreting the mystery of the two colored children.

• The first is that this is a folk art story that describes a fictional encounter with inhabitants from another world.

• The second is that this story is nothing but a distortion or distortion of a real event, although it is difficult to say whether this story was recorded according to a reliable account that the two children told about themselves, or if it was “written by adults.” Charles Ommen, through his study of the escape of children and servants from their masters, concluded that "there is some mystery behind it all [the story of the two colored children], something to do with drugging and kidnapping".

At The End :

What you think my friend happened can be part of the story real and part not but as we know it from old age so we just have what wrote at this age, so real one or not we made the spot in it and now comes your work what you think it is real or fake story or just have part from the truth.

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