THE GREEN
CHILDREN OF WOOLPIT
2006 (PIPE CLEANERS, GLUE,
FELT)
Sometime in the early to mid 12th century, two green children, a boy and a girl, were found near Woolpit, England. The children were found in a pit used to trap wolves. The children spoke an unknown language and their clothes were made out of a strange unknown material. The people of Woolpit tried to take care of the strange children but they refused to eat or drink anything until they were brought some green beans.
The boy became sick and died soon after he was found, but the girl became healthier and eventually lost her green colour. Eventually she learned to speak the local language and she told people that she and her brother came from a place called St. Martin’s Land which had no sun and was in perpetual twilight. All of the people that lived there were green. She said that she and her brother were following their herds of sheep when they heard bells that entranced them. They began to follow the sound of the bells until they entered a cave that eventually led them to the pit in which they were found. Although the girl ended up living a long time and marrying one of the people from Woolpit, she was never able to fully explain where she had come from or how to get back to St. Martin’s Land.