This is a very interesting story. Oddly, I was watching another one of your videos, then decided I needed to watch another lady’s video on the Fae. Then I watched this one. Something in me knew I needed to prep before watching this video.
I'm glad you said the "F" word! From the jump it's all I could think, but I also have an obsession with the other folk. I'm from the Appalachian mountains and find it particularly interesting that this ancient mountain range actually continues under the ocean and connects to the hilly green isles of your region. I think this literal land connection explains the extra level of similarities that seems to exist between Otherkin lore of Eastern N America and the Anglo Celtic Isles. This Appalachian connection even extends to NW Africa where surely even more uncanny similarities are to be found.
The Appalachian mountains were home to the Appalachia Native tribe. They lived there for thousands of years. European/UK people have only been there for a few hundred years. It's possible that some brought their own spirits with them or called them up from the spirit world. However, non-Native people are not indigenous to the North American continent. There is always an attempt to self-Indigenize by Appalachian people who conveniently try to erase the original people who signed treaties with the U.S. government and sometimes we're forced by the military to march westward. Thousands of Native people lived in the mountains and have ties to those lands. What you're describing is your own feeling of disconnect with your own ancestors and ties to the European continent. It has nothing to do with the continents being connected millions of years ago. There is nothing to that original continent that excuses your denial and erasure of an entire people who lived there.
I remember hearing this story with slightly different details or perhaps a different story entirely of green children found in a cave in France and I believe it was the late 1800's . They too came from a land of perpetual twilght. So intertesting ! Also, I love your make up 💛
Thank you for this video! I have loved that story ever since I first read about it Time Life's "The Enchanted World" series. It is very compelling, even if simply taken as a story. But, I had never thought the possibility that it could have begun as a matter of actual lost foreign children, with faerie elements added as the story was passed along. I am currently reading about the Radium Girls. That was barely a hundred years ago, in an educated society, yet their suffering was ignored for so long. Their glowing skin and clothing was seen as a beautiful perk of the job. I wonder what the people of Middle Ages would have thought, had they seen them.
Wonderful storytelling, thank you! I'm glad this popped up on You Tube, and look forward to more. For me, the theory that the original story of lost children acquired a faery overlay makes sense, and enhances the mystery and wonder of the tale.
I heard of this story once before, and it was great to hear you go over it in such detail. Fae were definitely the first thing that entered my mind when I first heard this. I wonder if eating a diet that is entirely green can make your skin that color the same way eating too many carrots can make your skin orange.
I thought immediately of a people living in a dense forest. The leaves would dim the light to an eternal twilight and would also maybe tint everything around them green. From the edge of the forest they'd be able to see a bright land and also the river. However I don't know whether there were still dense forests like this in 12th century England.
I listened to this yesterday morning and it was so fascinating that I asked my family if they'd like to listen to it as well later that day. My daughter (she's 7) came up with the theory that the kids (and all the other people) were green because they only ate green foods were they were from and since her diet changed once she got to woolpit, her skin changed along with it. She also reminded her brother that it's important to eat your veggies and try new things 🙈🤣 life with kids. Anyway, it was so cool to have my family so interested and engaged. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Hearth, have you read Brian Froud and Ari Berk's book The Runes of Elfland? It is a fascinating and beautiful read! The story of The Green Children appears in it, ad well as other stories of enchantment, with lessons and magick that can be gleaned from them.
This story is completely new to me. The green skin suggests maybe the kids were some sort of undead and the pit was their grave. The realm they come from might be similar to Hades since they had to cross a river back to the land of the living.
Yesss, this gets me every time too! 💚 I’ve thought about it so much over the years also & I’ve thought over the same theories as you’ve brought up here. I really can’t decide which theory I believe is most likely to be true…I wish there was a way to find out! It’s unfortunate that the girl didn’t marry someone prominent, with being taken in by the Knight, because then we’d have actual records of her…It’s such a shame she & her brother have been lost to time…You’re so great at storytelling by the way…I have watched you for a few years, but I never usually comment…Thank you for a great video! 💚
Children From the Sky by Duncan Lunan presents a rather lengthy and well researched argument for either extraterrestrial or extradimensional visitation.
I of course do not know the true answer, but I like the idea of them being children of the far who accidentally opened a portal into our world and did not know how to cross back.
Only thinking on green skin, maybe it was stained green by something they were always around? And if they lived underground, maybe their clothes were laced with copper somehow, making that green rash you get xD I do love this one
I would go with the chlorosis theory...the girl ate better, and got over it. If their skin was naturally green, that probably wouldn't have changed... that's my guess, anyway.
What if they were human children stolen by the fae? That’s quite common in Irish mythology, fae misleading children, perhaps they lived in a bioluminescence cavern system with fae? Just my theory based on what I’m hearing
Thank you for this story! Very well researched. I appreciate your time looking into this and conveying it to us. It’s so intriguing! I hope they were fae :)
i think this story is a mish-mash of many folk stories about the fae, and probably none of it actually happened (is not rare to find fictional stories that incorporate some historical figure as a character, but that doesn't make the story any less fictional). it would be interesting to search for other european folk stories about lost children/faery children and see their common elements, and try to find the original story that inspired all others.
I love this and i mean it ! This relieves my anxiety i mean i listen to your podcasts / videos while having a warm cup of green tea and it is so soothing also it is raining now a days so its like a miracle ! 😩🛐🧿❤️
We want more myths legends n stories like these, pleasasseeeeeeee
This is a very interesting story. Oddly, I was watching another one of your videos, then decided I needed to watch another lady’s video on the Fae. Then I watched this one. Something in me knew I needed to prep before watching this video.
I'm glad you said the "F" word! From the jump it's all I could think, but I also have an obsession with the other folk. I'm from the Appalachian mountains and find it particularly interesting that this ancient mountain range actually continues under the ocean and connects to the hilly green isles of your region. I think this literal land connection explains the extra level of similarities that seems to exist between Otherkin lore of Eastern N America and the Anglo Celtic Isles. This Appalachian connection even extends to NW Africa where surely even more uncanny similarities are to be found.
The Appalachian mountains were home to the Appalachia Native tribe. They lived there for thousands of years. European/UK people have only been there for a few hundred years. It's possible that some brought their own spirits with them or called them up from the spirit world. However, non-Native people are not indigenous to the North American continent. There is always an attempt to self-Indigenize by Appalachian people who conveniently try to erase the original people who signed treaties with the U.S. government and sometimes we're forced by the military to march westward. Thousands of Native people lived in the mountains and have ties to those lands. What you're describing is your own feeling of disconnect with your own ancestors and ties to the European continent. It has nothing to do with the continents being connected millions of years ago. There is nothing to that original continent that excuses your denial and erasure of an entire people who lived there.
It’s not the land. It’s that the settlers where originally from Ireland and Scotland. They brought the lore and mythology with them.
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The majority of the early settlers were actually English. But I suppose they don't count.
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I remember hearing this story with slightly different details or perhaps a different story entirely of green children found in a cave in France and I believe it was the late 1800's . They too came from a land of perpetual twilght. So intertesting ! Also, I love your make up 💛
Thank you for this video! I have loved that story ever since I first read about it Time Life's "The Enchanted World" series. It is very compelling, even if simply taken as a story. But, I had never thought the possibility that it could have begun as a matter of actual lost foreign children, with faerie elements added as the story was passed along.
I am currently reading about the Radium Girls. That was barely a hundred years ago, in an educated society, yet their suffering was ignored for so long. Their glowing skin and clothing was seen as a beautiful perk of the job. I wonder what the people of Middle Ages would have thought, had they seen them.
Absolutely obsessed with these folklore stories!
Thanks so much for covering this! I grew up close to Woolpit and one of our school plays was focused on this tale. It’s fascinated me ever since.
Wonderful storytelling, thank you! I'm glad this popped up on You Tube, and look forward to more. For me, the theory that the original story of lost children acquired a faery overlay makes sense, and enhances the mystery and wonder of the tale.
I heard of this story once before, and it was great to hear you go over it in such detail. Fae were definitely the first thing that entered my mind when I first heard this. I wonder if eating a diet that is entirely green can make your skin that color the same way eating too many carrots can make your skin orange.
I thought immediately of a people living in a dense forest. The leaves would dim the light to an eternal twilight and would also maybe tint everything around them green. From the edge of the forest they'd be able to see a bright land and also the river. However I don't know whether there were still dense forests like this in 12th century England.
This reminds me of Outlander. Like how Clair goes through the stone.
I love hearing you always spell out your name 🥰
I listened to this yesterday morning and it was so fascinating that I asked my family if they'd like to listen to it as well later that day. My daughter (she's 7) came up with the theory that the kids (and all the other people) were green because they only ate green foods were they were from and since her diet changed once she got to woolpit, her skin changed along with it. She also reminded her brother that it's important to eat your veggies and try new things 🙈🤣 life with kids.
Anyway, it was so cool to have my family so interested and engaged. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Lovely story Hearth. This is my first time hearing of the Green Children. Would love to hear more stories involving the Fae 🧚🏻♀️🌿🍄
Hearth, have you read Brian Froud and Ari Berk's book The Runes of Elfland?
It is a fascinating and beautiful read! The story of The Green Children appears in it, ad well as other stories of enchantment, with lessons and magick that can be gleaned from them.
I love these legends and stories from Celtic and pagan myths
I've always been fascinated by this story; Woolpit isn't far from me. This was really well researched, well done.
This story is completely new to me. The green skin suggests maybe the kids were some sort of undead and the pit was their grave. The realm they come from might be similar to Hades since they had to cross a river back to the land of the living.
Yesss, this gets me every time too! 💚 I’ve thought about it so much over the years also & I’ve thought over the same theories as you’ve brought up here. I really can’t decide which theory I believe is most likely to be true…I wish there was a way to find out! It’s unfortunate that the girl didn’t marry someone prominent, with being taken in by the Knight, because then we’d have actual records of her…It’s such a shame she & her brother have been lost to time…You’re so great at storytelling by the way…I have watched you for a few years, but I never usually comment…Thank you for a great video! 💚
Children From the Sky by Duncan Lunan presents a rather lengthy and well researched argument for either extraterrestrial or extradimensional visitation.
This was absolutely fascinating! Faeries were my first thought as well.
I of course do not know the true answer, but I like the idea of them being children of the far who accidentally opened a portal into our world and did not know how to cross back.
Only thinking on green skin, maybe it was stained green by something they were always around? And if they lived underground, maybe their clothes were laced with copper somehow, making that green rash you get xD I do love this one
I would go with the chlorosis theory...the girl ate better, and got over it. If their skin was naturally green, that probably wouldn't have changed... that's my guess, anyway.
what a fascinating historical account, and well told. thank you hearth!
What if they were human children stolen by the fae? That’s quite common in Irish mythology, fae misleading children, perhaps they lived in a bioluminescence cavern system with fae?
Just my theory based on what I’m hearing
Thank you for this story! Very well researched. I appreciate your time looking into this and conveying it to us. It’s so intriguing! I hope they were fae :)
i think this story is a mish-mash of many folk stories about the fae, and probably none of it actually happened (is not rare to find fictional stories that incorporate some historical figure as a character, but that doesn't make the story any less fictional). it would be interesting to search for other european folk stories about lost children/faery children and see their common elements, and try to find the original story that inspired all others.
I’ve always got a Fair Folk vibe from this story too.
love this podcast so much, the UK has such a rich supernatural and folklore history and im obsessed
Fascinating story! I'm loving these folk tales so much and look forward to hearing more! Love the eye make up 💚💚💚
Awesome 👌 and thanks for your story telling.
I love this and i mean it ! This relieves my anxiety i mean i listen to your podcasts / videos while having a warm cup of green tea and it is so soothing also it is raining now a days so its like a miracle ! 😩🛐🧿❤️
This story reminds me of the hollow earth stories of the 19th century.
I've been to pittenweem on holiday, this has saddened me.
Another amazing episode, Hearth!
Always an interesting story.
That was ABSOLUTELY fascinating! 🥰🤗💖🇨🇦
I live quite near Woolpit
Voltaire believed the Earth was hallow.
I love this story so much!
Really enjoyed the story. My wife and I are getting into witchcraft, any tips on how to strengthen our abilities?
Thanks Hearth
Regardless this is totally fascinating 💚
I found this interesting.
Maybe it’s a bit of both. Perhaps they were from another peoples and had a nutrient deficiency? 🧐
It’s all very interesting. I’m really enjoying this podcast on TH-cam 💜
I think that they were Fae. And I'd love to live where they came from. 😇😀😈