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Definition of Changelings
1. changeling [n] - See also: changeling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Changelings
Literary usage of Changelings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland (1891)
"The shape taken by this superstition in north-western Europe is the belief in
changelings—a belief which I propose to examine in the present chapter.1 By ..."
2. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"Mount Tabor, 1639 D 92 T'J" his fable of the " Mother, Nurse, and Fairy," laughs
thus at the superstitious idea of changelings. A fairy's tongue is the ..."
3. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow (2006)
"had spent quite some time in the mythology categories, looking up golems and
goblins, looking up changelings and monsters, looking up seers and demigods, ..."
4. British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes (1880)
"... CHAPTER V. changelings—The Plentyn-newid—The Cruel Creed of Ignorance regarding
changelings—Modes of Ridding the House of the Fairy Child—The Legend of ..."
5. Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland by John Gregorson Campbell (1900)
"changelings. When they succeeded in their felonious attempts, the elves left
instead of the mother, and bearing her semblance, a stock of wood (stoc maide), ..."
6. The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825)
"... if you respect the matter; changelings, if you respect the kind ; sometimes
creating pleasure, sometimes tediousness, with their overmuch prattling. ..."
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