Question

Children with this physical quality who ate only beans and claimed to be from “St. Martin’s Land” appeared near Woolpit (15[1])in the 1100s. A grindylow-like spirit with teeth with this quality named Jenny drowns children in stagnant Yorkshire ponds. Lady Raglan dubiously claimed architectural motifs named for a man with this quality, featuring faces with vegetation sprouting from the mouth, represent an ancient pagan deity. (15[1])Chimneysweeps wear conical frames to portray a (*) Jack dressed in this quality during May Day celebrations. A figure named for this quality arrives at a feast holding a bough of holly and an axe. One rhyme claims “married in [this quality], ashamed to be seen.” A figure named for this quality trades a fox, a doe, and a boar for kisses originally given by his wife. For 10 points, Gawaine accepts a beheading challenge from a knight of what color? ■END■

ANSWER: green [accept the Green Children of Woolpit; or Jenny Greenteeth; or the Green Man; or Jack in the Green; or the Green Knight; prompt on male or man until read with “what other quality does he have?”]
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Benjamin McAvoy-BickfordUNC AUNC B1915
Michael BucknallUNC HunnyDuke6415

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2024 ESPN @ Chicago03/23/2024Y6100%100%0%47.33
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2024 ESPN @ Duke03/23/2024Y2100%100%0%41.50