The Green Mist
By: adapted and illustrated by Marcia Sewall.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Folklore -- England
Description: A retelling of a Lincolnshire, England, tale, probably eighteenth-century, in which a dying child is made well by the spring rituals intended to placate the mischievous beings hiding in the earth.
Notes: A version of "The Green Mist" appears in M.C. Balfour's Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars, Folk-Lore, II, London, 1891.