We end where we began: 12th-century Woolpit, England, where there suddenly appeared two green children who can't have existed but sound like they should have. Whom 17th-century writers like Robert Burton and Francis Godwin, intoxicated by their own era's discovery of alien worlds in the sky, tried … [Read more...]
The Green Children – “Small, Vulnerable ETs” (Part 3 of a series)
(For Part 2, "Duncan Lunan and the 'Green Children' of Woolpit," click here.) "The power of the story [of the green children] comes in the end from our pity for these ultimate strangers in a strange land, these small, vulnerable ETs." --Diane Purkiss The quote is in medieval historian and … [Read more...]
