{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2533", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 2533, "subject": "Green children", "messages": 2, "voices": 2, "first": "2001-01-07T08:51:41+00:00", "last": "2001-01-09T01:55:54+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "akt", "address": "akt at attglobal.net" }, "date": "2001-01-07T08:51:41+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Green children", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "From: Jeff Wilson \nSubject: (urth) Greening, was Names for Green Men" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'm awfully glad this came up because I have a completely unrelated\nquestion that I'd like to throw out--perhaps anyone with an answer could\ncontact me by email rather than clog up the list (I'm also going to\nquery alt.mythology). John Crowley has a very short story, virtually a\nvignette, called \"The Green Child\" that he says is based on accounts by\nRalph of Coggeshall and William of Newbridge, both of whom say that it\ntook place about the middle of the 12th c. in West Suffolk. Two pale\ngreen children, a girl and a younger boy, appear at a place called the\nWolf Pits. A kind woman takes them in; the boy will eat only beans and\neventually dies; the girl also drinks milk, survives, becomes less green\nand eventually marries someone.\n\nWell, I have heard this story before. Has anyone else? I even know where\nI read it, though I recall neither the title not the author of the\nbook--it was a novella from a small press by a Brit sometime in the\nearly 80s. And I conclude that it is a real West Suffolk legend. Can\nanyone help? Crowley barely bothers to embroider--the tale could be from\na very good travel guide, though it has his customary poignancy.\n\n-alga" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Redhaven1", "address": "redhaven1 at aol.com" }, "date": "2001-01-09T01:55:54+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Green children", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "This is from my dad's copy of Reader's Digest's Mysteries of the Unexplained:\n\n Two children appeared from a cave near Banjos, Spain, in August 1887. \nTheir skin was green, and their clothes were of an unfamiliar material. They \ncould not speak Spanish, and their eyes appeared Oriental.\n At first they would not eat, and the boy died, but the girl survived and \nlearned enough Spanish to explain that they came from a sunless land, where \none day a whirlwind had swept her and her companion away and deposited them \nin the cave. Understandably, this did little to dispel the wonder \nsurrounding her. She died in 1892, her origins still unknown. \n\nThe book sites the source as being Colin Wilson, Enigmas and Mysteries, p.131.\n\n There is also an illustration with the caption \"The story of the green \nchildren found in Spain is remarkably similiar to that of two green children- \na boy and a girl- who emerged from a cave in Woolpit, England, in the 11th \ncentury; the girl said they came from a sunless land.\" But I haven't found \nany entry in the book that talks about this other appearance. The whole \nthing sounds weird, but then again, that's what the book is about. Hope \nmaybe this helped.\n\n-Steve" } ] } ] }