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Children of the Wood

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Two children, a boy and girl, left to the care of an uncle, who hired two ruffians to murder them, that he might inherit their wealth; one of the ruffians relented, killed his companion, and left the children in a wood, who were found dead in the morning, a redbreast having covered their bodies with strawberry leaves; the uncle was thereafter goaded to death by the furies.

Bibliography Information
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Children of the Wood'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/children-of-the-wood.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.