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In the 12th century, farm workers from Woolpit, Suffolk, are said to have found a strange girl and boy. They spoke a language no one understood, wore clothes in an odd style, but - weirdest of all - their skin was green. The boy soon died, but the girl eventually learned English and her skin started to lose its green tone. She said she came from a country called St Martin's Land, where it was perpetual twilight. She and her brother were shepherds who had wandered into a cave and emerged into a land with almost unbearably bright light. She grew up to marry a man from King's Lynn and lived a long life. #Folklore #weird #history #Suffolk