Green children

Redhaven1 · 09 Jan 2001, 01:55 · from urth-v0030.mbox · original

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From: Redhaven1 at aol.com
Subject: (urth) Green children
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:55:54 EST
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This is from my dad's copy of Reader's Digest's Mysteries of the Unexplaine=
d:

    Two children appeared from a cave near Banjos, Spain, in August 1887. =20
Their skin was green, and their clothes were of an unfamiliar material.  Th=
ey=20
could not speak Spanish, and their eyes appeared Oriental.
    At first they would not eat, and the boy died, but the girl survived an=
d=20
learned enough Spanish to explain that they came from a sunless land, where=20
one day a whirlwind had swept her and her companion away and deposited them=20
in the cave.  Understandably, this did little to dispel the wonder=20
surrounding her.  She died in 1892, her origins still unknown. =20

The book sites the source as being Colin Wilson, Enigmas and Mysteries, p.1=
31.

    There is also an illustration with the caption "The story of the green=20
children found in Spain is remarkably similiar to that of two green childre=
n-=20
a boy and a girl- who emerged from a cave in Woolpit, England, in the 11th=20
century; the girl said they came from a sunless land."  But I haven't found=20
any entry in the book that talks about this other appearance.  The whole=20
thing sounds weird, but then again, that's what the book is about.  Hope=20
maybe this helped.

-Steve

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