Digest urth.v030.n054 The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Jan 2001 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/2536 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. ============================================================================== akt — 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------