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Outside the Box (Paperback)
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Outside the Box (Paperback)
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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In the late 12th century, two very strange children came out of an
ancient earthwork at the village of Woolpit in East Anglia. They
wore clothes of a colour and material never seen before, spoke a
language nobody recognised, and were coloured green all over.
Later, when they had learned 'our manner of speaking', and lost
their green colour, they described a homeland which was no place on
Earth. The boy died within a year, but the girl grew up and
married. Is this a fairy story, or were the children runaways from
some primitive tribe? In the 17th century Robert Burton included
them in the astronomy section of The Anatomy of Melancholy,
suggesting that they came from another world. Could it be true?
Duncan Lunan has located the places in the story and traced the
people, who turn out to be real, though mysterious, and very highly
connected. The incident at Woolpit was one of a series at linked
sites, and seems to have been anticipated by the authorities of the
time. Lunan traces the green girl, traces her descendants to the
present day, and investigates strange things happening in the sky
and other events relating to her 'arrival'. It suggests that in
mediaeval times there might have been mass abductions from Earth,
by extraterrestrials, for experimental purposes, with the knowledge
if not the agreement of some of the terrestrial authorities - if
so, Lunan suggests, "The X-Files are set in the wrong century."
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