changeling Betydning & definition

Eksempler på changeling

• The changelings are women who have been spirited away to the other world and who cannot return without help.

• They were changelings that the examination system inadvertently engendered.

• These changelings are most often women and children (569).

• Either way, invoking the changeling legend to explain such behavior is potentially dangerous, as the traditional method of banishing a changeling is to burn it.

• Despite the physical agency that these female ghosts and changelings enjoy, their overwhelming silence and the rules of their imprisonment within this other world reveal the limits of their power.

• However, precisely because they presided over the critical moment of birth, midwives were also subjected to all sorts of slander, including the charge of substituting changelings.

• It is that of the changeling and the waif.

• I hope that it will not prove to be a changeling.