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

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Scholars’ trail — 16references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • ScotchMacdougall and Calder 7, 117, 143ff., 149, 155ff., 267, Campbell Tales II 57
  • Icelandic*Boberg
  • DanishKristensen Danske Sagn II (1893) 10ff., (1928) 11ff.
  • Norwegian*Solheim Register 18
  • LappishQvigstad FFC LX 43 No. 36
  • DutchSinninghe FFC CXXXII 58 No. 91
  • SlavicPolívka Slavische Sagen vom Wechselbalg (Archiv f. Religionswissenschaft VI 151ff.), Máchal Slavic Myth. 260, 264
  • ArmenianAnanikian 78 (left by dragon)
  • IndiaPenzer 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 ageCharacteristics of changelingExorcising a changelingDisposing of a changelingWater fairy changeling kept out of water too long, dies
Filed beside it
Child sold to fairiesCharms against theft of children by fairiesMan goes to fairyland and rescues stolen child. (Cf. F322.2.)Beggar returns to his mother child stolen by fairiesFairies appear in house and offer to dance with child
Travels with
Trolls as changelings. (Cf. F321.1.)

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