Case file · Folklore / legend
Green Children of Woolpit
Medieval English chronicles tell of two green-skinned children who appeared speaking an unknown tongue.
1150 CE · 52.22, 0.89 · status: legend
The account
Two 12th-century chroniclers recorded a brother and sister with green skin found near Woolpit, who ate only beans and later lost their colour; the girl survived and described a sunless land.
The sceptical view
More plausibly malnourished immigrant children (green from chlorosis/diet) refracted through legend.