the medieval 'green children' story is older and weirder than the tiktok version makes out

everyone's doing the green children of woolpit as some alien thing now and it's annoying me so here's the actual source situation. TWO medieval chroniclers wrote it down, independently-ish: Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh, 12th century, Suffolk. a boy and a girl turn up at the edge of th……