Vintage
colourised illustration recreating the Green Children of Woolpit (public
domain)
This morning, I received a communication
from a longstanding ShukerNature reader asking me why I had never blogged about
the Green Children of Woolpit, one of the most perplexing unresolved mysteries
of medieval times. In fact, as I mentioned in my reply, I have blogged about them – but not on ShukerNature.
Instead, a detailed article by me
investigating this fascinating, highly controversial subject from many
different angles appears in a lesser-known blog of mine, The Eclectarium of Doctor Shuker,
which I set up several years ago in order to document a very diverse – indeed, decidedly
eclectic – range of unusual subjects that interest me but which generally
(although not always) fall outside the scope (cryptozoology, animal anomalies,
zoomythology, and mainstream natural history) covered on ShukerNature.
Subjects covered so far in my Eclectarium
include the biblical Nephilim, living dolls, the giant animate bronze man Talos from Greek
mythology, the history of circus clowns, haunted machines, the head of
Ozymandias, dragons in Heavy Metal music, James Dean, cloud-busters, devil's
hair and steam devils, eccentric British folk festivals, divination, the
porcelain tower of Nanking, and much more besides.
I confess that work commitments and other
matters, not to mention the sad fact that it has attracted far less attention
from readers than ShukerNature has done, have seen my contributions to my Eclectarium
blog fall off almost entirely in recent times (something that I plan to
remedy). But perhaps various of you who may never have visited it (or even
known about it) will now seek it out, especially as in order to fill a Green
Children-sized gap in ShukerNature's content I am now linking directly to my
Eclectarium article concerning them – so please click here
to read it.
And who knows, once you've done so you
may find other Eclectarium articles of mine there that will interest you too,
especially during these grim times of international lockdown tedium. You can
thank me later!
Standing
by the famous sign in the village of Woolpit, Suffolk, depicting the Green
Children, during a visit that I paid there on 14 July 2008 (© Dr Karl Shuker)
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Fascinating story, thanks for writing so many new articles by the way! Zack
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Zack, glad you like them - researching and writing them keeps me busy during this near-global lockdown that we're experiencing.
DeleteThanks, reading them’s keeping me busy too, steadily making my way through Still in Search of Prehistoric Survivors and the 2 Shukernature books, looking forward to the next book!
DeleteGreat to know that my writings are of such interest to you. Two new books out later this year, will be releasing some details nearer the time.
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