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William of Newburgh's twelfth-century report of two children who were
found wandering near Woolpit, Suffolk, and who said they came from a
land where people, cities, and objects were all green, might be worth
taking into account, though it was a story of facts and mysteries rather
than mystical visions.
However it's worth noting that the children wandered out of their land
and into ours when they heard church bells, so perhaps their experience
of *this* world was from their point of view are rather long and
concrete 'mystical experience'...
It's in Newburgh's 'Historia Rerum Anglicarum'; also a version in Ralph
of Coggeshall's 'Chronicon Anglicanum'; there's a decent summary of this
charming and seductive story, with some refs, at
http://anomalyinfo.com/articles/sa00022b.shtml
Jon
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