The Green Children of Woolpit is a legend from medieval England about two mysterious children who one day appeared in the village of Woolpit in Suffolk, around the 12th century. They had greenish skin, spoke an unfamiliar language, and had only an unknown type of food in their stomachs. After being taken in by the villagers, the children learned to eat ordinary food, and their skin returned to a normal color. According to the story, they later said that they came from a place called “St. Martin’s Land,” an underground world. Theories about the children’s origins vary, ranging from a story about extraterrestrial beings to more realistic explanations, such as the possibility that they were two lost children from another culture or that an illness caused their greenish skin.
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