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Changeling
This is a deformed or ugly child that had been left by fairies in exchange
for a more attractive one. According to legend fairies could only snatch
infants before they were christened. Commonly changelings were frequently
thought to be senile fairies disguised as infants, and in comparative recent
times both children and adults accused of being changelings were put to
death. In 1894, a young woman in Clonmel in Ireland was accused by her husband
and family of being a changeling and burned alive. A.G.H.
Source: 62,
41.