Woolpit is a large village just off the A14 not far from home and it was just a couple of miles from where I grew up and we all knew the story of "The Green Children"
The two green children, who climbed out of the ground, speaking a strange language and afraid of the sunlight. The boy died soon after, but the girl grew up and married; she learned to speak English, and told of St Martin's Land, from where she and her brother had emerged. There are holes in the ground around Woolpit, quarries where bricks were made in the 19th century and gravel extracted through much of the 20th. But perhaps there was once something much older, for every Suffolk schoolchild knows that the name 'Woolpit' is nothing to do with wool, but with the wolves that once lived in the pits here...........
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| A page from last years Folklore Diary |
This is another story............... St Martins Land. https://www.norfolkfolkloresociety.co.uk/post/the-norfolk-entrance-to-the-magical-st-martin-s-land
It’s a legend that will delight those who believe in the little people and who dream of being able to visit Fairyland. On the road between Bawdeswell and Swanton Morley, in a field next to the thoroughfare, a hole was found – a potential portal to The Otherworld.
In an article written by Michael Sidney Tyler-Whittle entitled ‘Witchcraft’ in the East Anglian Magazine of October 1952, it read: "I have heard it said that until quite recently there was a hole in a field beside the Swanton Morley-Bawdeswell road.
I wonder if Ang at Tracing Rainbows who lives not far away from here has come across this hole in a field!
