changeling

Third TaleA mother had her child taken from the cradle by elves.In its place they laid a changeling with a thick head and staring eyes who would do nothing but eat and drink.

The fairy left a changeling in place of the human baby.

The changeling had an otherworldly aura about him.

The villagers suspected the child was a changeling due to its strange behavior.

The folklore told tales of changelings being swapped for human infants.

The changeling grew up feeling like an outsider in the human world.

The changeling's appearance gradually changed to resemble the human child it replaced.

Legends speak of ways to identify a changeling among human children.

The parents were heartbroken to discover their real child had been taken and a changeling left in its place.

The changeling exhibited magical abilities beyond those of a normal child.

In fairy tales, changelings often possess a connection to the supernatural world.

Again it was the changeling Maury.

They accused her of being a changeling, a type of doppelganger who replaces the original version of a person.

And then, at two and a half, like a changeling in a fairy story, he lost the little speech that he had and turned into a wild, unmanageable toddler.

Having Patsy was strangely like having a child of my own; a black one, as though she were a changeling. She must have felt the same way. We walked one day up Old Boss' path on an errand.

By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham." " You mocking changeling—fairy-born and human-bred!