μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

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

Marvels. · Marvelous creatures. · Fairies and elves. · Fairies and mortals. · Fairies carry people away to fairyland. · view the constellation · filed as F321.1

Filed across the traditions
  • Scotch Macdougall and Calder 7, 117, 143ff., 149, 155ff., 267, Campbell Tales II 57
  • Icelandic *Boberg
  • Danish Kristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 10ff., (1928) 11ff.
  • Norwegian *Solheim Register 18
  • Lappish Qvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 36
  • Dutch Sinninghe FFC CXXXII 58 No. 91
  • Slavic Polívka Slavische Sagen vom Wechselbalg (Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft VI 151ff.), Máchal Slavic Myth. 260, 264
  • Armenian Ananikian 78 (left by dragon)
  • India Penzer VIII 87 n. 1.
  • general *BP I 368
  • general **G. Piaschewski Der Wechselbalg (Breslau, 1935)
  • general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 835–864
  • general **E. Hartmann Die Trollvorstellungen in den Sagen und Märchen der skandinavischen Völker (Stuttgart, 1936) 76ff.
  • general *Hartland Science 105–122, 134, 145
  • general *Fb "skifting" III 252b. – Irish myth: Cross
  • general England, Ireland, Wales: Baughman
Within the index

Filed under Fairy steals child from cradle.

5 finer motifs beneath it
Changeling deceived into betraying his age Characteristics of changeling Exorcising a changeling Disposing of a changeling Water fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies
Filed beside it
Child sold to fairies Charms against theft of children by fairies Man goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.) Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairies Fairies appear in house and offer to dance with child
Travels with (Thompson’s cf.)
Trolls as changelings. (Cf. F321.1.)

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