# Digest urth.v030.n054

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Jan 2001*

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*10 Jan 2001, 03:22*

> From: Redhaven1 at aol.com
> Subject: Green children
> This is from my dad's copy of Reader's Digest's Mysteries of the
> Unexplained:
> 
>     Two children appeared from a cave near Banjos, Spain, in August
> 1887.
> Their skin was green, and their clothes were of an unfamiliar
> material.  They
> could not speak Spanish, and their eyes appeared Oriental.
>     At first they would not eat, and the boy died, but the girl
> survived and
> learned enough Spanish to explain that they came from a sunless land,
> where
> one day a whirlwind had swept her and her companion away and deposited
> them
> in the cave.  Understandably, this did little to dispel the wonder
> surrounding her.  She died in 1892, her origins still unknown.
> 
> The book sites the source as being Colin Wilson, Enigmas and
> Mysteries, p.131.
> 
>     There is also an illustration with the caption "The story of the
> green
> children found in Spain is remarkably similiar to that of two green
> children-
> a boy and a girl- who emerged from a cave in Woolpit, England, in the
> 11th
> century; the girl said they came from a sunless land."  But I haven't
> found
> any entry in the book that talks about this other appearance.  The
> whole
> thing sounds weird, but then again, that's what the book is about.

Hope

> maybe this helped.

 Very helpful. Thank you.
-alga

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