changeling

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  • Devilish changelings, Luther said, were often placed by Satan in the cradles of human children. 

  • Fairy changelings may be recognized by tricky habits, constant crying, and other unusual characteristics. 

  • Of course the witches had swooped down upon the lad and put the straw changeling in his place! 

  • T he elves once took a child away from its mother, and left in its place a changeling with a big head and staring eyes, who did nothing but eat and drink. 

  • They also stole babies, leaving in their place changelings, goblins who were old in wickedness while still in the cradle, possessing superhuman cunning and skill in music. 

  • 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.

  • A lot of money has been spent upon it; yet he disclaims all responsibility for it, and says it is not his child but that it is merely a changeling.

  • We might be called compulsive changelings!

  • A changeling child was believed to be a faerie child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the faeries.

  • He can change his looks in a moment (unlike the changeling, who needs several minutes and suffers while doing so).

  • According to legend he was stolen at birth and briefly replaced by a demonic changeling.

  • Once the prisoners escaped, they managed to warn the station about the changeling.

  • Many embrace their new existences, compensating for the loss of their mortal lives by immersing themselves in changeling society.

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