μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Characteristics of changeling.

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F321.1.2

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Filed under Changeling. Fairy steals child from cradle and leaves fairy substitute. Changeling is usually mature and only seems to be a child.

3 finer motifs beneath it
Changeling has abnormal features or growth. Limbs grow too rapidly, head is too big, or he is slow to learn to walk, or the like Changeling is always hungry, demands food all the time Changeling is sickly (often the fairy exchanged for a baby is an elderly, infirm member of the fairy clan whom the fairies are tired of caring for)
Filed beside it
Changeling deceived into betraying his age Exorcising a changeling Disposing of a changeling Water fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies

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