Eerie Echoes
Jan. 10th, 2012 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76I have a habit of checking Wikipedia's main page most days, just to see what the articles of the moment are, and reading things that sound like they might be interesting.
Yesterday there was a link in another article to the legend of the green children of Woolpit. Which is an interesting legend, though it seems not much has been done with it in fiction.
But after finishing the article, I went back and reread it more closely. And slowly things started to ping at me as familiar. The mysterious children. The eating only green beans. The younger child withering and dying, while the elder adapted and lost the greenish cast to her skin, assimilating.
I've read this somewhere before. Years ago. But damned if I can remember where!
Yesterday there was a link in another article to the legend of the green children of Woolpit. Which is an interesting legend, though it seems not much has been done with it in fiction.
But after finishing the article, I went back and reread it more closely. And slowly things started to ping at me as familiar. The mysterious children. The eating only green beans. The younger child withering and dying, while the elder adapted and lost the greenish cast to her skin, assimilating.
I've read this somewhere before. Years ago. But damned if I can remember where!
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Date: 2012-01-27 06:31 am (UTC)Aaaaand I don't know why that's on my Amablob wishlist, unless someone else on my flist was talking about the legend recently. (My flist-reading has been very sporadic this month.)