The Green Children of Woolpit: Folklore, History or Something Stranger?

Podcast: The Freakin’ Shack Podcast · fshack03

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

The Green Children of Woolpit: Folklore, History or Something Stranger? Two children with green skin appear in a Suffolk village. They speak a language no one recognises and refuse every food offered to them—except broad beans. It’s a story recorded in medieval England, but what might have been behind it? Pull up a seat, grab your favourite brew, and swing that light. Petrina and Steph explore the Green Children of Woolpit, from the accounts of Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh to theories involving folklore, illness and the children’s possible origins. How mu...