This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces of medieval weird history: the Green Children of Woolpit — and also hear the other less famous prodigies their story was originally presented alongside.

Today’s Texts:

  • Radulphi de Coggeshall. Chronicon Anglicanum. Edited by Joseph Stevenson, Longman & Co., 1875. Google Books.
  • William of Newburgh. The History of William of Newburgh. The Church Historians of England, vol. IV, part II, translated by Joseph Stevenson, Seeleys, 1856, pp. 395–670. Google Books.

References:

  • Clark, John. “The Green Children: A Cautionary Tale.” 1999. Academia.edu.
  • Clark, John. “‘Small, Vulnerable ETs”: The Green Children of Woolpit.” Science Fiction Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, July 2006, pp. 209-229. JSTOR.
  • Dutton, Paul Edward. “An Incident: The Strange Case of the Green Children.” Micro Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, pp. 11-53.
  • Lunan, Duncan. “Children from the Sky.” Duncanlunan.com, 2013, https://www.duncanlunan.com/childrenfromthesky.asp
  • Yglesias, Matthew. “The Bizarre Myth that Ancient Greeks Couldn’t See Blue.” Slow Boring, 4 April 2022, www.slowboring.com/p/greeks-blue