Changeling - Ireland

In European folklore and folk belief, a changeling is the offspring of a fairy, troll, elf or other legendary creature, left secretly in exchange for a human child. The motivation for this conduct stems from the desire to have a human servant, the love of a human child, or from malice. Some people believed that trolls would take unbaptized children. The reality behind many changeling legends was ...

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Replacement people, also known as substituted people, shapeshifters, and/or changelings, appear in a number of modern works of fiction - books, films, television, games, and elsewhere. Literature: Refer to Brothers Grimm numerous fairy tales. Uther Pendragon took on the appearance of Gorlois Duke of Cornwall in the Arthur stories. Movies and television: Roger Zelazny, Changeling (1980). Movie depicting the adventures of both changelings, maladapted in their respecti ...

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In parts of Ireland, left handed people were sometimes thought to be changeling fae. ...

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Since most beings from Scandinavian folklore are said to be afraid of steel, Scandinavian parents often placed a steel item such as a pair of scissors or a knife on top of an unbaptized infant's cradle. It was believed that, if a human child was taken in spite of such measures, the parents could force the return of the child by treating the changeling cruelly, using methods such as whipping or even inserting it in a heated oven. In at least one case, a woman was taken to court for having killed her child in an oven.^{See also:}

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In Wales the changeling child (plentyn newid) initially resembles the human it substitutes, but gradually grows uglier in appearance and behaviour: ill-featured, malformed, ill-tempered, given to screaming and biting. It may be of less than usual intelligence, but again is identified by its more than childlike wisdom and cunning. The common means employed to identify a changeling is to a cook a family meal in an eggshell. The child will exclaim, "I have seen the acorn before the oak, but I never saw the likes of this," and vani ...

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Replacement people, also known as substituted people, shapeshifters, and/or changelings, appear in a number of modern works of fiction - books, films, television, games, and elsewhere. Literature: Refer to Brothers Grimm numerous fairy tales. Uther Pendragon took on the appearance of Gorlois Duke of Cornwall in the Arthur stories. Movies and television: Roger Zelazny, Changeling (1980). Movie depicting the adventures of both changelings, maladapted in their respecti ...

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Changeling, Changeling - Scandinavia, Changeling - Wales, Changeling - Ireland, Changeling - Replacement people in modern literature film and gaming, Changeling - Notes, Changeling - External link

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