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changeling
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Definition:When the fairies steal a human child away, they leave one of their own in its place. You know it’s a changeling because it cries and fusses all the time and doesn’t thrive or grow.Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)---a creature found in folklore and folk religion throughout Europe. A changeling was believed to be a fairy child that had been left in place of a human child stolen by the fairies. The theme of the swapped child is common in medieval literature and reflects concern over infants thought to be afflicted with unexplained diseases, disorders, or developmental disabilities.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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that Doremus (though she knew him better than she did those changelings, her children) amazingly resembled that naval hero, Winfield Scott Schley, as he looked in 1898.
Sinclair Lewis. It Can't Happen Here
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“It’s a changeling,” she said impatiently. “Leave it and come. Now!”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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LOVE. Peace, and get hence, you changelings.
Ben Jonson. The Alchemist (1610)
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And that minx, Catherine Linton, or Earnshaw, or however she was called—she must have been a changeling—wicked little soul!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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