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Green men and medieval beasts
Richard Mabey goes on a church crawl to discover nature-based iconography in East Anglia
SIMON KNOTT
Dickleburgh Screen, dog catching rabbit
Dickleburgh Screen, dog catching rabbit
THE VILLAGE OF WOOLPIT (from an Old English word for wolf-trapping pits) could stake a good claim to be the folkloric epicentre of Suffolk. There is a sacred well. The village sign commemorates the legend of the Green Children, a twelfth century story of a boy and a girl who emerged from one of the parish wolf pits into a harvest field. Their skins were green, and they refused all food and communication until they were offered beans. When they had learned English they said they had come from a land of perpetual twilight, beyond a great river.
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