The Green Children of Woolpit
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Harvesters and the Children
William says they were kept for some days without food. Eventually learned to eat normal food, and their skin color changed as a result. They also learned to speak twelfth century english which would be a form of middle English.
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Transcript
In an English village in the 1100s, two green-skinned children appeared one day and some have claimed they were aliens or fairies. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli consider who were the green children of Woolpit, where did they come from, and why were they green?
