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A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human -like creature found throughout much of European folklore. A changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being when kidnapping a human being.
27 de dic. de 2016 · The basic premise of these motifs is that the faeries, through supernatural means, are capable of abducting babies from humans, whilst replacing them with one of their own, usually a wizened old faerie who would proceed to eat and drink voraciously, and maintain a surly silence.
26 de jun. de 2024 · changeling, in European folklore, a deformed or imbecilic offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them surreptitiously for a human infant. According to legend, the abducted human children are given to the devil or used to strengthen fairy stock.
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19 de may. de 2010 · Hoy vamos a hablar de los changelings, o «niños cambiados», unos duendes relacionados directamente con la maternidad. Más concretamente se trata de los bebés que tienen las hadas que, en ocasiones, tienen dificultades durante el parto y acaban siendo criaturas deformes o raquíticas.
Fairies -- sidhe, elves (not the Tolkien type), fairy folk etc -- have the bad habit of replacing human babies with their own for whatever reason, creating changelings ("children that have been changed, replaced"). A changeling grows among humans and later discovers his true calling. But what happens with the kidnapped human children?
- "Is there some sort of consensus as to what fairies actually do with them?" No. Because there is no consistent Hiberno-British folk mythology. Any...
- I've heard, that they take children, could find several fates, they could be made slaves/servants, they could be raised as one of the fairies, livi...
- Those humans are possibly raised to serve fairy folk. Human females are said to be more efficient for reproduction purposes. Males are kept to serv...
- Faeries swapped their offspring with human babies because faerie children were weak and frail, and that's why they got the human mothers to raise t...
6 de oct. de 2021 · The legends state that more male human babies were exchanged with changelings, and indeed male children have more birth defects. Moreover, changelings are often described with features similar to birth defects like progeria, autistic behaviors, and others.
23 de may. de 2024 · Changelings have been described in myth and historical writings for centuries. They have usually been portrayed as evil, cunning or mischievous. The typical tales describe the impact on human families when their child is stolen and swapped for a fairy one: a changeling.
