Anomalies Article: The Green Children of Woolpit

The Green Children of Woolpit
The Legend - Variations - Theories - Paper Chase - Some Conclusions... - Notes - Sources

Acknowledgements:

Thanks go out to tmResearch, Rocky C. Karlage, David Yale, Brad Gilbert, and Bret Hammond (www.bretnet.com), all of whom pointed me to John Carey's translation of William of Newburgh's account in Eyewitness to History.

Thanks also go to Melissa Leggett for sending me her observations about the folkloric nature of the story.

Sources:

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1982 E.B. Inc.
Micropedia IX, entry on the Norman king, Stephen.
Micropedia X, entry on the William of Newburgh.
Eyewitness to History, John Carey, 1987 Faber and Faber Limited, pg. 28-30.
Fairy Mythology, The, Thomas Keightley, 1850 London, pg. 281-283.
Fairies, The, in English Tradition and Literature, K.M. Briggs, pg. 7-8.
House of Evil, Margaret Rowan, 1977 Scholastic Magazines, pg. 22-28.
Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores, or Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages, 1857 London, no. 66 - 'Radulphi de Coggeshall Chronicon Anglicanum', pg. x-xxv, pg. 118-120.
The Green Children of Woolpit, Paul Harris, Fortean Times #57, Spring 1991, pg. 39,41.
Strange Disappearances, Brad Steiger, 1972 Lancer Books Inc., pg. 78-79.
Strange Mysteries of Time and Space, Harold T. Wilkins, 1958 Ace Star Books, pg. 183-187.
Supernatural Disappearances, Rodney Davies, 1995 Robert Hale Limited, pg. 42-45.
Unexplained!, Jerome Clark, 1993 Visible Ink Press, pg. 162-163.

See Also:
The Green Children of Banjos

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