Who Were The Green Children of Woolpit And Where Did They Come From?

29. Occam’s Razor Cutting Through The Lies

Occam’s razor is a philosophical principle that states that when two or more explanations account for the facts of something, the simpler explanation is more likely to be correct.

One of the explanations suggests that everything the girl told Sir Richard was a lie, but it doesn’t dismiss the discovery of the Green Children as a folktale.