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The Green Children of Woolpit

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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The Story of the Uncle and the Kids Hat

Two green kids are found by a wolf pit. They speak in a language we don't understand, and their clothes look different than ours. Why were they green? One possible explanation would be chronic arsenic poisoning. The most likely exlai ation is that these were two flemish children,. ok, so etheus of flem made them great. No, it's then from like flanders, like dutch kids. There had been, at this period, in the twelfth century, there was a lot of emigration into england. So you would have had a lot of flemish people who had recently come to England. After 11 54, henry the

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