In 12th century Suffolk, a girl and boy were found of green color. They spoke a weird language no one understood and had strange clothes. The villages who found them took them to a knight's house. They stayed there but refused to eat anything except raw beans. The boy grew depressed, and died, soon after they were both christened by the townspeople. But the girl, who was named Agnes, had lived, learning the language, and becoming popular with the people, though her green color had faded away. They asked her where she came from and how she came here. She told a interesting story. She said that she was from a place called St. Martin's Land. A land where it was always twilight with no sun and everything was green. She found Suffolk when her brother and she heard some bells which enchanted them. Following those sounds, they came through a cave and emerged to the present place where they were struck by the light of the sun and the strangest temperatures of the air, new sights to them. They sat in that place where they were found.
Many theories about the green children origins have emerged. Some say that they were green fairies, aliens, they had came through a rip in dimensions, came from an underground world, or that everything was just a hoax in the beginning.
Agnes married
Richard Barre.
Sources:
Martin and the Green Children by John Clark; Folklore 117 (August 2006) pp.207-214
http://his.library.nenu.edu.cn/upload/soft/MartinandtheGreenChildren.pdf
William of Newburgh's Account of the Children and Ralph Coggeshall's from
http://anomalyinfo.com/
Check out
The Enigmas of History
by Alan Baker
Click on the image. Mysteries? Yes please.
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