| 单词 | changeling |
| 例句 | Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Fittingly, the series is a kind of changeling itself: a pale echo of the 2017 novel by Victor LaValle on which it is based. ‘The Changeling’ Review: Bye Bye Baby 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z W. B. Yeats in his youth wrote a changeling poem called “The Stolen Child,” whose refrain is “For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” This New York Love Story Subverts Its ‘Happily Ever After’ 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z She introduces the idea of a biological weapon to root out the changelings, which she acknowledges would be tantamount to genocide. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Winters was sought out in later years for his changeling voice and he contributed to numerous cartoons and animated films. Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies 2013-04-12T17:08:10Z At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.” This Week in Fiction: Yiyun Li on Fairy Tales 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Mak's wife tries to convince them that it's a changeling, but they're not fooled. Season's readings: Secunda Pastorum by Alfred W Pollard 2010-12-20T10:43:33Z A changeling is what a fairy or demon or troll leaves behind when it kidnaps a human baby. ‘The Changeling’ Review: Bye Bye Baby 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z In the vanguard are cells of faery changelings, planted in human society in order to destroy it from the inside. ‘Seven Black Diamonds’ by Melissa Marr: Faeries for the environment 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Worf, acting on a tip from Odo in the Great Link, has been — secretly, apparently — working for Starfleet to expose an incoming changeling attack. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 3 Recap: Family Secrets 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Aside from an ill-fated revenge that they didn’t really need the Borg for, I don’t know what else the changelings really got out of this alliance. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The Borg and the changelings came to an agreement in which the changelings would be the Borg’s vehicle to carry out some villainous plan to help them procreate. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Series Finale Recap: Saying Farewell 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The cast and crew are required to be vaccinated; an actor who played the changeling child in “Midsummer” was taken out of the cast because he was too young to be vaccinated. A Theater in a California Canyon Becomes an Oasis Once Again 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z And lets assume that everyone knows the changelings aren’t afraid to murder. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z In addition to trolls, gnomes and changelings, Arcadia has goblins, lots of them. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z They would have had good reason to link up with changelings after what happened in “Deep Space Nine.” ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z One particularly nasty trait of goblins is their habit of stealing human babies from cribs and replacing them with “changelings,” tiny creatures that look like babies but aren’t. For ‘Trollhunters,’ Guillermo del Toro Found Inspiration in the Sewers 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z When Ida turns her back and plays her Wonderhorn, goblins kidnap her sister and leave a changeling in her place. What did Maurice Sendak know about the wild things that no one else did? 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z More moving, though, is the melody associated with Hilda’s changeling past: it’s a lullaby that suggests a lost joy and a source of buried emotion. Dance Review: Dancing Danes (No Holy Water) 2011-06-10T22:28:23Z Seven recruits him to help find the changeling, which is, on its face, a great idea. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Sinking Ship 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Unless the Founders themselves chose to withhold the cure from certain changelings. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Riker offers to keep Seven in an “unofficial capacity” to root out the changeling, rather than reinstating her command. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Sinking Ship 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z My apologies, a changeling took over my body. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 5 Recap: Old Friends Return 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z This tale of the changeling Russian twins, told by Josh Weil in his captivating first novel, “The Great Glass Sea,” is a kind of sweeping historical fable. Modern Russian fable superbly drawn 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z His grand idea was to lure the changelings from the Shrike, a superior ship, onto the Titan? ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But nevertheless, Vadic also reveals that she and nine other changelings were experimented on by Starfleet as prisoners of war, as part of Project Proteus. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Here the beings are the trolls, goblins, changelings and other beasts living beneath a fictional town called Arcadia, whose dry, paved riverbeds place it in the general vicinity of Los Angeles. Review: Welcome to the Neighborhood Underworld in ‘Trollhunters’ 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Either way, the dark cloud that had hung over his boyhood now had a disturbing back story: his father, however subconsciously, had been treating him like a changeling. For Alan Cumming, Life Isn’t Always a Cabaret 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Winters was sought out in later years for his changeling voice and he contributed to numerous cartoons and animated films. Groundbreaking Improv Comic Jonathan Winters Dies 2013-04-12T12:02:30Z Later in the series, we learned that Starfleet tried to orchestrate a genocide of the changelings through a virus — a story line that returned with gusto this week in “Picard.” ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Moral Ambiguity 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z I’m sure there’s no strategic advantage to examining a superior changeling ship’s technology when many of them have taken over Starfleet, but we digress. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 8 Recap: Consequences Abound 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I am also wondering if Vadic’s boss — obscured by, uh, changeling goo — is someone we will find familiar in the future. ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3, Episode 4 Recap: A Sinking Ship 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z A story line involving a “changeling” never rises above the promising. Review: ‘A Christmas Horror Story,’ for the Gory Faithful 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Is Ben a changeling, a goblin, a “hostile little troll,” she wonders? Doris Lessing’s “The Fifth Child” and the Spectre of the Ambivalent Mother 2019-05-11T04:00:00Z I thought such restraint was a smart and visually refreshing departure from the typical evil changeling narrative. Stream These 5 Chilling New Horror Movies 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z “The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies. Review | Fairies and their magical worlds have captivated us for centuries. Here are some of the books that did it best. 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z The changeling beauty of Ms. Ronan, fresh from her Academy Award nomination for “Brooklyn,” made sense for the diabolical teenager Abigail. Review: In Arthur Miller’s ‘Crucible,’ First They Came for the Witches 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z It’s known that Cunningham once told Ms. Brown that he felt he must have been a changeling because he was so unlike his family in temperament and pursuits. L.A. Dance Project Takes On Merce Cunningham 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination. How the animated 'Nimona' broke LGBTQ+ barriers and survived to tell the tale 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine". Merle Oberon: India's forgotten Hollywood star 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The more whimsical element of the film — sea monsters — grew from Casarosa’s fascination with changelings. The story behind ‘Luca’s’ sea monsters and how they were brought to life 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z A deliciously twisty spin on a changeling story, Cuckoo Song is aimed at young readers. 'I was so scared I took it back to the library': the books that scare horror authors 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Superstition around fairies lingered in rural Ireland then, and Cleary recruited Bridget’s family to help drive out this mischief-making changeling. Review | What do old tales of exorcism and murder say about how men see women now? Not much. 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z After a local eccentric warns Sarah that her son is “not him,” she suspects he’s been replaced by a changeling — perhaps sprung from the enormous sinkhole on their property. Reviews: ‘The Hole in the Ground,’ ‘The Cannibal Club,’ ‘Tuftland’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z There are also more troubling tales, one of which is recorded by the Grimms, of elves stealing healthy human babies and leaving deformed or disabled changelings in their place. How a Real Genetic Disorder Could Have Inspired Fairy Tales 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “There’s so many changelings in folklore,” he said during a recent video call. The story behind ‘Luca’s’ sea monsters and how they were brought to life 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks. “A Small Flame” 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z He seems, indeed, to be a figure in the unrealistic literature he reads – a changeling, a prince, a person with some as yet unknown but redemptive identity. Alan Hollinghurst on Edmund White's gay classic A Boy’s Own Story 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn! The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z A changeling or elf child, Ð that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Was it the Good People stole you away, Little white changeling, Brigidin Ban? The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Elf′-child, a changeling, or a child supposed to have been left by elves in place of one stolen by them.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The anxious parent looked twice through the pages, finally finding the changeling, dwarfed and subdued, in a modest corner next the patent medicine "ads." The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z The action proceeded by means of disguises, sleeping-potions, changelings, pirates, sudden recognitions of lost relatives, phantoms, demoniacal possessions, burlesque exorcisms, shipwrecks, sacks of cities, bandits, kidnapped children. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Hatem's happiness were over,— But his changeling soul would glide Into any favored lover Whom she fondles at her side. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z He also favoured the Jews, and was alleged by his enemies to be the changeling child of a Jewess. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Perhaps he is a changeling prince Bewitched through magic moons To tempt us solemn busy folk With meaningless balloons. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Will the illustrious changeling permit me to bring one or two to his recollection? Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z At first she will not know, but will fondle and kiss the changeling as if he were her own. The Fairies and the Christmas Child 2011-09-29T02:00:12.583Z His slower train had followed on the very heels of that malign and radiant red-haired changeling, whose mysterious brew he was at last to taste for himself. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z New York is a changeling, a different city to everyone who passes through. Lens Blog: Todd Heisler's Photographs of Sound Stages in New York 2011-09-24T09:00:55Z They had also, in other localities, recourse to the barbarous charm of burning, with a live coal, the toes of the suffering infant, the supposed changeling. Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride 2011-09-12T02:00:28.290Z He has left us, as the changeling Brownson would term it a remarkable instance of Popish intellectual activity* Not a man, woman, or child, was spared by this Popish army. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z But all was vain and troubled and misty in my mind, and love—or its fretful changeling—weighed on my heart heavily. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z I was striving to “rear the changeling Hope in the black cave of Despair.” The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z The belief in the fairy changeling has, however, led to many acts of cruelty. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z With hats the practice is even simpler; I flaunt a new one until it is stolen, and then wear the changeling until a substitute of even greater seediness has been supplied. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z I pray you will bear it in mind, thou great changeling,—that established a college of a hundred janizaries, and nominated these janizaries for the trifling sum of one hundred thousand ducats. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z I am sure A changeling is she, and belongs to the moor. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z Maybe I'm like a changeling and maybe I am really top-10 and I am disguised. Serena Williams advances to Rogers Cup final 2011-08-14T01:57:41Z The bird whose nest is chosen never deserts the strange changeling, but seems to feel feeding the young cuckoo to be a sacred duty, and sees its own young ejected and perishing without apparent concern. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Or have the fairies taken him and left a changeling?” In the Days of the Guild 2011-08-03T02:00:12.687Z The courts held the child to be a changeling. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z She seemed to me a changeling, left in her cradle by some spiteful witch in place of the boy I so coveted. Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z They carry off children, leaving changeling substitutes, transport men and women into fairyland, and are generally the causes of all mysterious phenomena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z The Cobolds and various sprites they believe will bewitch their cows, set fire to their hay-stacks, lead them astray through the forest, steal their infants from the cradle to replace them by fairy changelings. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z "Oh Colonel Brand, that is so unlike the daring spirit of the Brands, which scorned to cringe, that I am almost tempted to believe you some impish changeling." Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Or this, telling how Bertha of Canterbury, in Keats’s queer new conception of her, was really a changeling born in the jungle:— Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z This change of sense into nonsense he called “the changeling,” in allusion to the nursery legend when fairies steal the fairest child, and substitute an ill-favoured one. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The fairy changeling belief also exists in some districts of Argyll, and a fairy boy dwelt long in a small farm-house in Glencoe, now unoccupied. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Or was it some changeling spirit of genius that for the time being had taken up its abode in the frail tenement of his body? A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Frederick, Prince of Wales, whom his father denounced as a "changeling," published an account of how George I. had turned Frederick's father out of the palace. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z "I fear that the idea is an unintended changeling, a potential cuckoo in the nest of policing," he said. Ex-Met chief attacks police plans 2011-04-27T18:54:59Z The hipallage he calls the changeling, when changing the place of words changes the sense; as in the phrase “come dine with me, and stay not,” turned into “come stay with me, and dine not.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The changeling idea is as prevalent as in Europe. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z How does one know whether one is one’s self or a changeling elf? The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z Neil Young praised Mr. Waits — who growls poetic, picaresque songs full of lowlife characters and deep romance — as a performer, singer, actor, magician, spirit guide and changeling. Rock ?n? Rollers Salute Their Own 2011-03-15T04:55:03Z Specimens may be also found of a buff color as if steeped in coffee, another changeling produced by the action of strong gum. History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America 2011-03-14T03:01:03.623Z A wild, dark, elfish changeling, not at all pretty, but the most bewitching sprite withal, that ever kept a household in confusion. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z The fairies abduct human children, leaving 'changelings' in cradles, or carry off wives to act as 'wet nurses' or midwives. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z Am I a changeling elf, do you think?” The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z From a state of outrageous frenzy, aggravated by severe bodily suffering, the illustrious Dean of St. Patrick’s sank into the situation of a helpless changeling. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Some are undoubtedly changelings from accidental causes, particularly those that run from brown and black brown, to an almost jet black, which were at one time much sought after. History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America 2011-03-14T03:01:03.623Z Don't mind my talk, dear aunty, I always was a crazy, elfish changeling, without a heart, you know. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z It was in this room that Mrs. Breezy, trespassing sometimes, stood for a few moments lost in amazement, feeling more than ever the changeling sense that she did her best to forget. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z “Oh, yes, and unless people are careful they will steal young babies from the cradles and leave changeling elves in their places.” The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle 2011-04-14T02:00:48.987Z I have heard of people going to the fairies and finding that years passed as days, but I do not believe in changelings, though there are stories enough about them. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Lady Grant, hoping to get back her own child in a year and a day, nursed the changeling. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z She looked, as she stood, bright, mocking, defiant, scornful—more like some fairy changeling—some fay of the moonlight—than a living creature, with a woman's heart. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z He admonished the people to pray devoutly to God to take away the devil, which ‘was done accordingly; and the second year after the changeling died.’ British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z It was so beautiful that it could not, they said, be a common child; neither was it a changeling, for changelings are weazened, yammering, ill-looking things, that greet night and day, and never grow bigger. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 These changelings would waste away and die in a short time after being left. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z It was her wish to kill the changeling. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z It is on record that once when a mother was leaning over a wizened changeling the latch lifted and a fairy came in, carrying home again the wholesome stolen baby. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry But the creed of ignorance everywhere as regards changelings is a very cruel one, and reminds us of the tests of the witchcraft trials. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z An amazing fellow: a veritable changeling this Henry! The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life The changeling was usually an old man, and many were the efforts made to get him to betray his identity. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z But in the morning the true child was found smiling in his cradle and the fairy changeling was gone. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Any specially peevish or weakly baby was regarded as a changeling, the word coming at last to be almost synonymous with imbecility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" So in Friesland, Germany, it is considered a protection against the fairies who deal in changelings, to lay a Bible under the child’s pillow. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z All that are taken from our sight, they say, Loiter amid the scenery of their lives For certain hours or days, and should he hear He might, being angry drive the changeling out. Two plays for dancers The changeling idea was common: the mother coming home would find an ugly changeling in the cradle. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z Their legends deal largely with fairies, wishing-stones, haunted glens, and changelings. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women In this very century a poor cottager, who lived near the spot, had a child who grew uncommonly peevish; the parents attributed this to the fairies and imagined it was a changeling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Closely akin to the subject of changelings is that of adults or well-grown children being led away to live with the Tylwyth Teg. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z No, his body stirs; The pressure of your mouth has called him home; He has thrown the changeling out. Two plays for dancers I never heard of their making changelings, though they had the power of doing good or evil acts, and it was a very risky thing to offend them. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z But although she resorted to all sorts of expedients, even to that of trying to pass off a changeling as the grand duke’s child, she was not successful. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" This vagabond and changeling myth figured prominently in 1550 in the province of Peru. The Spanish Pioneers In Denmark the mother heats the oven, and places the changeling on the peel, pretending to put it in; or whips it severely with a rod; or throws it into the water. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z But the People of the Hills didn’t work any changeling tricks. Rewards and Fairies It is in such animistic beliefs as these, which underlie sacrifice, that we find a partial solution of the problem of changeling belief. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z I guess he was just one them changelings, papa tells stories about, that the fairies over in the Ireland-country carries ’round with ’em. Dorothy on a House Boat In some inexplicable way, we Anglo-Saxons have managed to keep our bumps of veneration and combativeness well partitioned or estranged and so keep mastery of the changeling tribes who permit them to commingle. Seeds of Pine This she did, and the changeling asked what she was about. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Eagerly they told him all about their little guest, and asked him if he had heard anything of a featherless bird, a strayed elf, or a human changeling hidden in a blue egg. Lulu's Library, Volume II The prevalent and apparently the only important theories which are current to explain this belief in changelings may be designated as the Kidnap Theory and the Human-Sacrifice Theory. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z There is a court and chivalry; Oberon would have the queen’s sweet changeling to be a “knight of his train, to trace the forests wild.” Folk-lore of Shakespeare From his cradle in the glamourie They have stolen my wee brother, Roused a changeling in his swaddlings For to fret mine own poor mother. Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems But to keep that changeling—suffering changeling—any longer, could better none and nothing. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) On returning to his estates my husband became quite another man: you would have said that he was a changeling. Eyes Like the Sea All remaining classes of changelings, which fall outside the scope of this clearly defined psychological theory, are to be explained pathologically. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z It seems that, in Denmark, the mother heats the oven, and places the changeling on the peel, pretending to put it in, or whips it severely with a rod, or throws it into the water. Folk-lore of Shakespeare For the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine He may have been found in some human cradle, but he was a changeling. The Crow's Nest Many are the traditions which tell of human infants abducted by the Korrigan, who at times left an ugly changeling in place of the babe she had stolen. Legends & Romances of Brittany A winickey child—one which was weak, frail, and peevish—was of the nature of a changeling. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z In the Western Isles of Scotland idiots are supposed to be the fairies’ changelings, and, in order to regain the lost child, parents have recourse to the following device. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Altogether, when I beheld this changeling in the glass, I kissed my hand to him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) What detested and unnatural changeling would appear before me to claim my hand? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) In most Northern tales where the changeling betrays itself it at once takes flight and a train of elves appears, bringing back the true infant. Legends & Romances of Brittany As a rule, treating the fairy babe roughly and then throwing it into a river would cause the fairy who made the change to appear and restore the real child in return for the changeling.’ The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z As a fairy is, in each case, the speaker, the changeling in this case denotes the child taken by them. Folk-lore of Shakespeare Tiburcio did not love this changeling Mexican who had red hair. The Missourian It was therefore plain which was the changeling. A Danish Parsonage The same stratagem appears to be used as the cure in English and Scots changeling tales. Legends & Romances of Brittany And my mother knew of an actual case in which a changeling was put through the stone in order to get the real child back. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z As the child here found was a beautiful one, the changeling must naturally mean the child stolen by the fairies, especially as the gold left with it is conjectured to be fairy gold. Folk-lore of Shakespeare My dear William Ernest Henley, We are all busy in this world building Towers of Babel; and the child of our imaginations is always a changeling when it comes from nurse. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) In Scotland they have a superstition as to changelings; that is, a human child is stolen and a child of the Trolds substituted. A Danish Parsonage The usual method of ridding a family of such a changeling is to surprise it in some manner so that it will betray its true character. Legends & Romances of Brittany I cannot remember having heard changeling stories here in the Island: I think the Tylwyth Teg were generally looked upon as kind and good-natured, though revengeful if not well treated. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z "Not to admire's the simplest art we know, To keep your fortune in its statu quo; Who holds loose cash, nor cheques his changeling gold, Buy what he will, is certain to be sold." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 Suddenly he was a changeling, a being querulous and pitiful, needing indulgence and sacrifices. The Passionate Friends There is one story of a changeling that has some graphic incidents. A Danish Parsonage As namely, can there be any one sort of men that enjoy themselves better than those which we call idiots, changelings, fools and naturals? In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts He said they thought of them as a race of spirits capable of making themselves visible to mortals, as living in underground places, as taking fine healthy babes and leaving changelings in their place. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries 2011-01-06T03:00:47.543Z When taxed with being a religious changeling, his shrewd answer was, "Not so, for I always keep my principle, which is this—to live and to die the Vicar of Bray." England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel The changeling inherits, and the process is repeated, step by step. The Cuckoo Clock He consulted a wise woman, who advised him to get an unbroken horse colt, who would indicate the changeling. A Danish Parsonage They are the fairies of photography, and fill our albums with winsome changelings. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences Well, ah, did—did you ever hear of a changeling? Be It Ever Thus Can an inconstant, A fickle changeling, move a man like Percy? The Indian Princess La Belle Sauvage You have much shew of reason; yet, methinks What you suggest of one, whom fickle Fortune, In her changeling mood, hath hurl'd, unpitying, From her topmost height to lowest misery, Tastes not of charity. André Art thou then so dull? cannot thy heart, Thy changeling heart, explain my meaning to thee, Or must upbraiding 'wake thy apprehension? The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy The mother's plain, I must say—but the child is like a changeling. The Rainbow These dwarf babies were known as changelings, and were recognisable by their puny and wizened forms. Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas Mr. Aston declared he was a changeling and not the thin little urchin he had first encountered by the mile-stone on the Great Road. Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker O Lennox, who would wish to rule This changeling crowd, this common fool? Lady of the Lake So should this world, and the false changeling man Be buried in one universal ruin. The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy The club was not run according to Y.M.C.A. rules, and was an embarrassing changeling child in their nursery, just as it was a suspicious innovation under the military system. A Padre in France But my mother—" "Your mother was an exception, a changeling of the Fairies. My Father, the Cat Rather do I believe her some changeling forced upon us by witches’ craft. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Where I had seen, in fancy, the queen of hearts, there lay like a changeling the eight of clubs, with corner bent as only token of the transformation. Desert Dust If she could only be sure that Lisbeth would behave properly and not act like a changeling, a troll child! Lisbeth Longfrock In the depths of the man’s changeling and feckless soul is a principle which has carried him untarnished through many a wild adventure. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol You think that I am not myself now; that this me which is talking to you is not the real me, but a kind of—what do they call it?—a kind of changeling. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Whether child or changeling yet still shall she be cursed.” In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Even if she were to lose him, to rescue no more than the changeling that she had always known, she could not bring herself to share him with any other woman on earth. The Tragic Bride "One drop of this precious elixir," continued he, "if it touch the form of yon changeling, will dissolve the charm: on the real person of the king it becomes harmless." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 His chatter amused them immensely, yet there was an element of pathos through it all; he looked so frail and delicate, like a fairy changeling, or some being of another world. A Patriotic Schoolgirl The child was like a changeling, in the old fairy stories. Margaret Montfort He is no son of mine, but a changeling of the children of the J�nn. The Valley of the Kings The changeling left in its place was found in the bed; and this he kept too, defying the efforts of the underground folk to regain it. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology "To be safe, I must be a mouse," thought the changeling. A Treasury of Eskimo Tales When Eben came home from his successful sales, he found a changeling. Country Neighbors To which I answer, 'I am a changeling, and that's sufficient, I think. A History of Nursery Rhymes "I'm not sure, but there are tales about fairy raths and changelings and leprechauns and pookas and banshees, and all kinds of extraordinary creatures." The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life The cases we have yet to deal with, except the first, exhibit a different and much more humane treatment of the changeling than the foregoing. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology They were luminous and crystalline, like the eyes of a changeling. The Lost Girl For Oberon is passing fell and wrath, Because that she, as her attendant, hath A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king; She never had so sweet a changeling. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 "Either they or some demon changelings," answered the old man, rocking to and fro upon the mats. The Dragon Painter They then reproached me, saying, I was a changeling, and an evil spirit. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon The changeling himself in one of Lady Wilde's tales directs his foster-mother to Fairyland. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology I tell you I'm a changeling, and changelings can't be taught. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Such changelings would not count, but that their vote weighs heavily. Hubert's Wife A Story for You I have heard that Arthur is not the real king, but a changeling brought from fairyland in a great wave all flame. King Arthur and His Knights Whate'er my fate, I am no changeling—'tis too late: The reed in storms may bow and quiver, Then rise again; the tree must shiver. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 The delightful author of the “Popular Romances of the West of England” says that some thirty or forty years before the date of writing he had seen several reputed changelings. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology What was the dear Pums saying with regard to her changeling? A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls And they who, seeking beauty, once descry Her face, to most unknown; Thenceforth like changelings from the sky Must walk their road alone. The New Morning Poems “You mean that improbable story of the changeling at Kilgorman,” said he, with a forced laugh. Kilgorman A Story of Ireland in 1798 Oberon, king of the fairies, quarrelled with his wife, Titania, about a “changeling” which Obĕron wanted for a page, but Titania refused to give up. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But a changeling was to be known in other ways than by his physical defects; under careful management he might be led to betray himself in speech or action. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Oh! they all tell stories about me; but I'm not half bad, only I think I'm a changeling. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls She was like some changeling in an old witch tale. A Soldier of the Legion They also stole babies, leaving in their place changelings, goblins who were old in wickedness while still in the cradle, possessing superhuman cunning and skill in music. The Book of Hallowe'en A changeling is nobody—that is to say, he is not the body he pretends to be, which is substantially being nobody—and the son of nobody, is clearly a filius nullius. The Two Admirals In Normandy the changeling declares: “I have seen the Forest of Ardennes burnt seven times, but I never saw so many pots boil.” The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology But she felt sure that Lucy's words were right: that Irene was a wicked changeling, and that the sooner she got away from her the better. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls The old folklore belief in incubi and succubi as the parents of changelings is brought into connection with the theory of direct diabolic begettal. German Culture Past and Present Such sprites did not scruple to pull away the chair as one was about to sit down, to pinch, or even to steal children and leave changelings in their places. The Book of Hallowe'en We all know that his father was a changeling, and the son of a changeling can have no more right than the father himself. The Two Admirals Making allowance for the influence of imagination, there can be no doubt, on comparison of these passages, that the children to whom the character of changelings was ascribed were invariably deformed or diseased. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology She did not feel at all like a changeling now. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Devilish changelings, Luther said, were often placed by Satan in the cradles of human children. German Culture Past and Present He was familiar with most of the old street names,—how West Broadway was once Chapel Street,—many of them long since abandoned for modern changelings far less effective. White Ashes The child supposed to have been left by the Fairies in the cradle, or elsewhere, was commonly called a changeling. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Everybody believed Ellis to have been a changeling, and one saying of his is well known in that part of the country. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology I used to think that I wasn't to blame, because I was a changeling; but Rosamund says I am not a changeling, and that I am just like anybody else, and ought to be good. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls As a practical application of this, it may be mentioned that Luther advised the drowning of a certain child of twelve years old, on the ground of its being a devil's changeling. German Culture Past and Present A smart angry discussion took place between Oberon and Titania as to which of them was to have the little changeling boy. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales But he could not say what was done to the fairy changeling. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales In the Nithsdale story which I have already cited, the servant girl at midnight covers up the chimney and every other inlet, makes the embers glowing hot, and undressing the changeling tosses it on them. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Maud says I wouldn't feel so like a changeling if I could pray like other people, and sing hymns like other people. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls "But," he adds, "such changelings are said not to live more than to the eighteenth or nineteenth year." German Culture Past and Present The moral purpose of the performance was forgotten; and the Church disowned its evil changeling. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 I will now relate a tale somewhat resembling those already given, but in this latter case, the supposed changeling became the mainstay of his family. Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales The evidence given was to the effect that the neighbours fancied that the child, who had not the use of his limbs, was a changeling. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology She called Irene a fairy, a changeling, and nothing could soothe her or comfort her. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Concluding that it was a changeling, the peasant sought the advice of his neighbours, who suggested that he should take it on a pilgrimage to a neighbouring shrine of the Mother of God. German Culture Past and Present This woman was a changeling in some mystic sort—the same in aspect, yet how alien to his ideal of yore! The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee For the rest, Jorce was dressed sombrely in black cloth, was extremely voluble and vivacious, and impressed Lucian with the idea that he was less a fellow mortal than a changeling from fairyland. The Silent House The same writer gives a similar account of the changeling mentioned above, p. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology You have done an exceedingly silly thing to allow her to sleep in the room with that changeling sort of girl, Irene Ashleigh. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls The changeling and the little devil played for a few moments with each other, rolling over and over, and crying, "Ho, ho, ho!" and then they disappeared together. German Culture Past and Present And directly there came in a crowd of elves bringing in the right child; and they laid it near the hearth, and carried the changeling away with them. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Her purpose coincides with her peasant belief that he is a "changeling," and is really of the sea people. Irish Plays and Playwrights The mother was, of course, pleased to recover it; and the next thing was to dispose of the changeling. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology He had a kind of uncanny feeling that she was a sort of changeling; that she could do extraordinary, defiant, and marvelous things. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Seeing an idiotic child, whom he regarded as a changeling, he recommended the authorities to drown it, as a body without a soul. The Age of the Reformation The elves once took a child away from its mother, and left in its place a changeling with a big head and staring eyes, who did nothing but eat and drink. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm Mrs. O'Brien's method of getting rid of a changeling is founded on one of Croker's stories, and a story almost exactly like it is told by Grimm. Fairies and Folk of Ireland This is hardly a changeling story, as no attempt was made to foist a false child on the parent. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Yes, there was no doubt whatever now in her mind: her darling Irene was a fairy, a changeling. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls All races but one are as aliens engrafted or sown, Strange children and changelings; but we, O our mother, thine own. Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) And when she set the egg-shells of water on the fire, the changeling said, "Though old I be As forest tree, Cooking in an egg-shell never did I see!" and began to laugh. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm So they were rid of him, and you know when you're rid of a changeling the Good People must send your own child back. Fairies and Folk of Ireland In the north of Germany one is advised not to touch the changeling with the hands, but to overturn the cradle so that the child falls on the floor. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology She couldn't tell stories; she didn't believe in changelings. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Theodora escaped her, and realized that a changeling had indeed entered her home. The Place Beyond the Winds The rightful heir—a cold, dull-blooded neutral—a wild and wavering changeling. The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History It was partly nature's fault, too, certainly, for Nancy had always seemed like a changeling, she was so above her surroundings. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 It is found also among the natives of the Pacific slopes of North America, where it is death to the mother to suckle the changeling. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Yes," said Irene, speaking in her old wild strain; "I am a changeling. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls “A little one-off, a changeling without clan or magic of any kind.” Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Thou wert no changeling, no slavish neutral; but even as I felt, thou art, thou wilt be! The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History A changeling, according to folk-lore and fairy tale, is a fairy child that the fairies substitute for a human child that they have stolen. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. The death and burial of changelings, though, as here, occurring in the tales, are not often alluded to; and there are grounds for thinking them a special deduction of the Scottish mind. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology I am no changeling, but your own Irene, and I would rather die than injure one hair of your head. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls So, as the good stuff had moved out, these disreputable changelings had moved in. Murder in the Gunroom The wild idea came to him that the man who sat before him with Frank's features was some kind of changeling. None Other Gods The changeling was generally sickly, shrivelled and in every way repulsive. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D. Another woman in a Danish tale engaged to drive a changeling out of the house he troubled; and this is how she set about it. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Irene isn't a changeling at all, and she never had anything to do with the fairies. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls Dumping out the five rounds in the cylinder, he inspected the changeling carefully. Murder in the Gunroom It is all sheer wit, impish as a fairy changeling's, and always barren of feeling. Adventures in Criticism Thus, fairy-like, the King they steal away, And in his room a Lewis changeling lay. Andrew Marvell Thiele relates a story in which a wild stallion colt is brought in to smell two babes, one of which is a changeling. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology True to a single object, the freedom and happiness of man, they have not veered about with the changelings and apostates of our acquaintance. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The monsters would not be monsters except to rustic prejudice, and the changelings would be simply experiments in creation. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays The lower part of his face was small and pointed for the breadth across forehead and cheek bones, and, with his outstanding ears, combined to give him something the look of a piskie's changeling. Secret Bread Before she had dared the ordeal of confession this feeling of hatred, this perverse and ugly changeling that had brooded in her heart, had seemed too strong, too deeply seated to be moved. A Man's Woman The changeling fashioned out of a broom in the Lithuanian story already cited, was disposed of, by the parish priest's advice, by hewing its head off. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology But it was deeper than this … and his men who had served him for ten or fifteen years looked on him as upon a stranger or a changeling. Come Rack! Come Rope! Thus, so long as in a fluid world there is some measure of life and organisation, monsters and changelings will always remain possible physically and regrettable morally. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays Some said she was a changeling; others that she had found the four-leaved clover or the fairy ointment, and rubbed her eyes with it. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches Love had not returned to his old place, and never, never would, but the changeling was gone, and the house was swept and garnished. A Man's Woman Mr. Mitchell-Innes tells us that the fear of changelings exists in China. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Therefore the perception of genius is prophetic,—an anticipation of manhood for this boy, who is the King's son, child of Eternity, and only changeling of Time. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 I think I died before you ever saw me; and out of the sea and the mist that day some changeling crept into your boat for your soul's undoing. The Firing Line "He's a changeling, my dear," said Mrs. Fame to Marcella when, in spite of the old lady's wish to keep them in London, they told her they must go North. Captivity From her she received a charm—compounded of goose eggshells and vinegar—which Cassie claimed to be what they used in Ireland to unbewitch changelings. The Primrose Ring The changeling superstition and the classic stories of children and adults beloved by gods of high and low degree are consistent with this belief, and inseparable from it. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology And she raised changeling hands at me, and laughed and danced and chattered like the drops upon a waterfall; and clear as if a tiny bell had jingled I heard her cry. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance "A base-born changeling!—some villain, who, under this disguise, abused our honourable intent; but say, peerless princess, to whose prowess we owe your rescue." Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 The night comes on apace; The cricket's chirp, the woodland murmur's swell, Bid nature's changeling melodies efface The glamour of yon phantom spell. Idle Hour Stories Like all women, she was most wonderful just before the birth of her first child, a little changeling creature, wild-eyed as her fairy mother. Prose Fancies But changelings frequently conform to the more civilized usage of measuring their age by years. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology As for the Oxford Movement, he regards it as a changeling. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Nothing could shake this belief; and in after ages the boy was spoken of as a changeling, left by some fairy, whose appointed sojourn had been then accomplished, the means for his release being fulfilled. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Czerina overhears that she is a usurper and a changeling, and expresses her surprise in a line most unblushingly stolen from Fitz-Ball and the other poetico-melo-dramatists:— “Merciful Heavens! do my ears deceive me?” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 5, 1841 Once more certain shapes and figures were born upon his canvas, but they were no longer the true children of his imagination, they were no longer his own; they were changelings, grotesque abortions. Vandover and the Brute It seems to consist in taking a clean shovel and seating the changeling on its broad iron blade, and thus conveying the creature to the manure heap. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Oberon was perfectly justified in wishing to get the changeling from his wife, and shows himself worthy of becoming a mortal for insisting on his rights as a husband. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies A child fanciful and charming, too fine in all her moods not to breed wonder, to give the feeling that Nature had placed in that mountain cabin a changeling of her own. Audrey He wanted the woman, and had he suddenly discovered that she was a changeling born among the people, his love and his determination to marry her would have abated not a tittle. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories There is little doubt that she was a changeling, but the link is imperfect which would connect her with the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. France in the Nineteenth Century The problem set before the heroes of many folk-tales is to compel laughter, but that does not seem to be intended in these changeling stories. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Titania is the most developed woman character in the play, because she insists on her individual right to the changeling. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Those changelings from some fateful land, those passionate, pale women, the milestones of whose pilgrimage spelled love, ruin, despair, and death, they were her kindred, her sisters. Audrey I am sending back the changeling with all proper apologies. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 24, 1917 Was it possible that Mrs. Garland's changeling had a spark in her, a magic urging her on?... V. V.'s Eyes We are sometimes even told in so many words that the changeling had betrayed himself, and the underground folk were obliged to give back the stolen child. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology He had never come out, but a changeling had gone down the hill, and now stirred about the earth. The Hill of Dreams Pachmann's is a lullaby for fairy changelings who have never had a soul, but in whose veins music vibrates; and in this intimate alien thing he finds a kind of humour. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory He was of those changelings from a fortunate land to whom Love clings when Faith has covered her head and turned away. Sir Mortimer Before you have gone very far you will find that the imaginary child you set out with has been magicked into a changeling. Shandygaff The great Reformer was only on a level with his countrymen in their superstitions in reference to changelings, or Killcrops, as they were then called. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology However, to none, one must believe, is the changeling such gazing-stock as to himself. Romance Island She was a changeling of a girl, veering from gayety to shyness.... The Fortieth Door Their intense dislike of what is ugly and misshapen is the reason why they so much practise "the legerdemain of changelings," stealing away finished, handsome babies, and leaving blemished and defective ones in their stead. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England During this period, therefore, children were believed to be particularly liable to abstraction by the Fairies, and mothers chiefly dreaded the substitution of changelings in the place of their own offspring. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition I believe she is as much afraid of my courtesy as ever she was of my mischief, and that in her secret heart she still believes me a changeling. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago One was the changeling's mother, a woman of the people, whom a substantial bribe had induced to part with her new-born infant; the other was Bianca's waiting woman. Love affairs of the Courts of Europe Fairy changelings may be recognized by tricky habits, constant crying, and other unusual characteristics. The Glories of Ireland And each fair cup was deep with wine: Such was the changeling's charity, The sweet feast was enough for nine, But not too much for three. Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes Volume II. Snapdragon still his changeling blossom shakes with the burden of the bees, And the strong bindweed creeps and winds and springs on high a conqueror. Poems New and Old For my part, I never did give in to all the nonsense folk talked about his being a changeling or at best a limb of Satan. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago She did not herself know but that it was her own child, but there were old folks in the town who knew that it was in reality a mermaid's changeling. Bred in the Bone Some fairies of life size, who live within the green hills or under the raths, are supposed to carry off healthy babes to be made fairy children, their abstractors leaving weak changelings in their place. The Glories of Ireland "She makes me think sometimes of the fairy changeling that was a hundred and fifty years old, and never saw soap made in an egg-shell." Not Pretty, but Precious It was no wonder he was dazed, for the opera he found himself listening to seemed like a changeling. Mary Wollaston “I then did ask of her, her changeling child.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Ask once, that they make the matter clear, But ask no more, if the lesson fail; Let changelings go, however dear, And shed no tears for a love so frail. Poems Others might have taken you for a changeling, and left you to your own devices. The Tarn of Eternity But to keep that changeling - suffering changeling - any longer, could better none and nothing. Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2 Themselves innocent of a mother's experiences, the sisters were free to give play to their affections in a novel direction, and to assume a sort of spiritual maternity that was lucky for the changeling. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire There’s that young master up at Oakwood—that crooked slip as they used to say was a changeling—gets out o’ window o’ nights and sails with them.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Give me your little changeling boy to be my page.' Tales from Shakespeare No, no changeling I. My name is Demo, and I am here on a mission. The Tarn of Eternity But the People of the Hills didn't work any changeling tricks. Rewards and Fairies The woman was a dealer in black magic, and who knew but that the child might be a changeling? Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters As to mistaking any one else for him, the Bishop remembered enough of the queer changeling elf to agree with her that it was not a very probable contingency. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago But let the stars appear, and they Shed inhumanities away; And from the changeling fashion see, Through comic and through sweet degree, In nature's toilet unsurpassed, Forth leaps the laughing girl at last. New Poems He held her off a bit to look at her, as if to be sure it was she and no changeling, and as if he wanted her eyes to corroborate her lips. K And seeing that the man is dead, art thou to blame for bringing in his place a substitute, even so poor a changeling as this man Amber? The Bronze Bell She had known Viviette when she first came, with her changeling face, a toddling child of three, to the Manor House. Viviette I cannot recollect the time when I did not as entirely deem Peregrine a changeling elf as that Robin was my own brother. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago No, Fraud: though many have counterfeited both thee and me, We are ourselves yet, and no changelings, I see And why shouldst thou ask me, man, if I live? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 These changelings, while they belong to any one party, affect to be its most ardent supporters in order to avert any suspicion of insincerity. Santo Domingo A Country with a Future It's whispered in the family that I'm a changeling. The Road to Damascus Q. Whether she had ever conceived by Satan, and given birth to a changeling, and of what shape? Mary Schweidler, the amber witch : the most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known, printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father, Abraham Schweidler, the pastor of Coserow in the island of Usedom / edited by W. Meinhold ; translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon. I ask her, if the changeling be gone, where is the true Peregrine? but she only wags her head in answer. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago And what a changeling imp of a creature Dot is, after all! The Far Horizon Among these was Luther, who declared the children either to be supposititious, or else mere imps, disguised as innocent sucklings, and known as Wechselkinder, or changelings, who were common enough, as everybody must be aware. Among My Books First Series It was a fairy changeling which the nurse had taken in, meaning to give the farmer's own child to the fairy in exchange; but nobody knew this but the tailor. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland He is an honest fool, and an innocent changeling. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 All the more was the young people’s faith in the changeling story confirmed, and child-world was in those days even more impenetrable to their elders than at present. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago One poor Irishwoman insisted "that he was not a human crathur, but a poor fairy changeling, and that he would vanish away some day, and never be heard of again." Life in the Clearings versus the Bush He disliked to see the Counts give room so far to men who blasphemed Jesus and Mary, who called the Christians changelings, and sucked them dry, nay, would gladly kill them all, if they could. Life of Luther Then the woman knew that it was a fairy changeling she was carrying, and she flung down the child and the plaid, and ran home, where her own baby lay smiling in the cradle. Fairy Tales; Their Origin and Meaning With Some Account of Dwellers in Fairyland She remembered the stories of changelings, and vowed to herself that her own babe should never be out of sight. Lying Prophets Do you not know that he is a changeling?” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Mr. Hartland cites a case of actual attempt to treat a supposed changeling in a summary manner, which occurred no later than May 17,1884, in the town of Clonmel, Ireland. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day A changeling may always be recognized by its peevishness and backwardness in learning to walk and speak. Early European History That was the reason why many a poor little baby, that grew puny and thin, was called a "wiseel-kind," or changeling. Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks This was very much like saying that he was a new boy in the old skin; and this, again, was little better than a euphemism for changeling. Archibald Malmaison Your precious babe is hence conveyed, And in its place a changeling laid. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Baptism was the armour of the infant against the assaults of Satan and his angels, against the cunning of the wanderers from elfin-land, the fairy-sprites, with their changelings and their impish tricks. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Have you ever read any stories or fairy tales that tell about changelings? Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools It is in the same way that in ignorant ages the notion of changeling has been produced. Lives of the Necromancers The child's no changeling; but he's changed, and changed for the better, too, by Gad! Archibald Malmaison And that the poor changeling was still tenderly remembered might be proved by the fact that when the bells rung for Queen Anne’s coronation there was one baby Peregrine at Fareham and another at Oakwood. A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Were all the details of the fairy-tales true, which abound in every land, the cruelty meted out to the child suspected of being a changeling would surpass human belief. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day And as for Inger," said she, "the changeling, as we called her, she went about with children of mine and learned both this and that, for years she did. Growth of the Soil She must have known that the large bird was a golden eagle—a plunderer, who was usually welcomed with loud shots; doubtless she had also seen the queer changeling he bore on his back. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils They mistook that lusty Teutonic changeling for their own new-born Turkish babe, and they nursed and nourished it. Crescent and Iron Cross A priest stole him out of the cradle, like the fairies, and left a fool and changeling in his place. Character Writings of the 17th Century Shall the difference of hair only on the skin be a mark of a different internal specific constitution between a changeling and a drill, when they agree in shape, and want of reason and speech? An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 But to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty let me ask,—Would any one be a changeling, because he is less determined by wise considerations than a wise man? An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 By the moon, patroness of all pursetakers, who would be troubled with such changelings? squat, heart, squat. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 I resolved to atone for it, as far as I could, by taking the tenderest care of the little changeling, and trying to educate him as well as his own mother could have done. A Romance of the Republic I find it hard to count that white man a teacher who tortured an ambitious Indian youth by frequently reminding the brave changeling that he was nothing but a "government pauper." American Indian stories Here everybody will be ready to ask, If changelings may be supposed something between man and beast, pray what are they? An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 This belief may have originated in the assumption that when a baby became ill and fretful, it was a changeling. Elves and Heroes A contortion of the features, probably indicating a smile, made the changeling face more hideous than before. Average Jones "I'm inclined to think that he was a changeling, and that old Colonel Clancy's child was spirited away." The Earth Trembled Q. Whether she had ever conceived by Satan, and given birth to a changeling, and of what shape?—R. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 Let them be so: what will your drivelling, unintelligent, intractable changeling be? An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 A holy woman, pure and kind, Who'll keep my little babe from harm— Who'll make the evil changeling flee, And bring my sweet one back to me? Elves and Heroes She was a girl who prided herself on her carefully blase' and supercilious attitude towards life; but this changeling was too much for her. The Little Nugget It is more difficult still to guard against changelings in casual politics. Public Opinion Mowbray had been disgusted at first—faces like changelings, atrocious like chickens. Red Fleece And shall not the want of reason and speech be a sign to us of different real constitutions and species between a changeling and a reasonable man? An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 "Come, fairy changeling, and let's have a song together." Sara, a Princess Knowing the magical properties of the sword, they looked for it at once, and when they found a changeling in its place their hearts sank indeed! Tales of the Punjab Had he been a changeling, such as the girl Bess spoke of, he could not have seemed more different. Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales His own hand slew the woman who knew alone of the changelings, save the bright and defiant ex-queen of the El Dorado. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance "It's like a changeling," thought Eleanor, looking with fascinated eyes at the weird little being. Masters of the Guild She tried to look for the changeling; but the tears made her so that she couldn't see very well; and there were so many potatoes! The Potato Child & Others Whilst he was laughing, suddenly came a host of little elves, who brought the right child, set it down on the hearth, and took the changeling away with them. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm They say 'tis a spirit, a changeling that could not brook the inside of a church, but flew out of the Moustier at Montauban like a white swan, in the middle of a sermon.' The Chaplet of Pearls Is the 'changeling,' whom Locke so seriously discusses, of the human 'kind'? Pragmatism She came screeching at me saying the babe was a changeling I had left in place of her child of two years, and I should care for it. Masters of the Guild He is some changeling and not of the blood of Rury. The Coming of Cuculain And when she came downstairs to be petted and made much of by all the four, she found that the true and original Armine had come back, instead of Petronella's changeling. Magnum Bonum Without her, child, enchantress, changeling that she is, how could I face existence? The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel I moved among them on the frozen Liffey, that I, a changeling, among the spluttering resin fires. Ulysses She was like a changeling indeed, as if her feelings did not matter to her, really. Women in Love This greatly resembles the European belief in "changelings." Atlantis : the antediluvian world I can never quite believe he is really the same creature as that scrawny, yellow, ugly little changeling I brought home in the soup tureen. Rilla of Ingleside I am no changeling, nor can I refine and split straws, like your philosophers and Morleys: but if the people will struggle, I will struggle with them; and die, if need be, in the front. Sybil, or the Two Nations Against the dark wall a figure appears slowly, a fairy boy of eleven, a changeling, kidnapped, dressed in an eton suit with glass shoes and a little bronze helmet, holding a book in his hand. Ulysses You are no true daughter of the Panjandrums: you are a changeling, thrust into the Panjandrina's bed by some profligate nurse. Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress Had she there sucked in with her mother's milk the enigmatic life of the Metal Hordes, been transformed into half human changeling, become true kin to them? The Metal Monster "Until he delivers to me the changeling whom he wants to use as his Deus ex machina," replied Bonaparte. Marie Antoinette and Her Son Thy secret Scythian and your changeling child, Where hide they now their heads that lurk not hidden There where thy treason deemed them safe, and smiled? Locrine: a tragedy With him instinct is a dotard, nature a changeling, and common sense a discarded by-word. Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners "He might have made a husband for Hortensia, and rid me of the company of that white-faced changeling." The Lion's Skin Or are they foster children—changelings from another star? The Metal Monster And now you thought you heard the lullaby which a fairy might sing to some fretful changeling it had adopted and sought to soothe. Zanoni I praise the gods that gave me thee: thine heart Is none of his, no changeling's in desire, No coward's as who begat thee: mine thou art All, and mine only. Locrine: a tragedy They did but change priests' babies, But some have changed your land; And all your children sprung from thence, Are now grown Puritanes; Who live as changelings ever since, For love of your demains. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 She had learned the reason, or she thought she had: she was a STEPCHILD; that was why, and a stepchild was almost as bad as a "changeling" in a fairy story. Mary-'Gusta "I believe you are some little changeling god sent by your master Apollo to put his thoughts into my head." Daphne, an autumn pastoral No,—no,—no,—this is a changeling, and no child. Gala-days A little changeling spirit Crept to my arms one day: I had no heart or courage To drive the child away. Legends and Lyrics Part 2 She had asked for the slim Apollo whom she had loved in Wales, and this colossal changeling had arrived in his stead. A Damsel in Distress Vex not thy soul too sorely: me, not her, Thy spirit embraced, thine arms and lips made thine Me, not my darkling wraith, my changeling foe, My thief of love, our traitress. Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy I felt like the changeling in the fairy story who came back after a seven years’ sleep. The Way of All Flesh Does she not sometimes reflect that if her children were the ordinary sort, and not these changelings, she would be enjoying certain pretty little attentions dear to a mother’s heart? The Diary of a Goose Girl Thus, in the fogs and horrors of London, he plays at being an Arabian tale-teller, and his “New Arabian Nights” are a new kind of romanticism—Oriental, freakish, like the work of a changeling. Essays in Little There is no other way but to tell the king she's a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood. The Winter's Tale He bears himself more proudlier, Even to my person, than I thought he would When first I did embrace him: yet his nature In that's no changeling; and I must excuse What cannot be amended. Coriolanus They will carry gold with them, 'these old Beguines;' nay they will carry the little Dauphin, 'having nursed a changeling, for some time, to leave in his stead!' The French Revolution They would be far nicer to cuddle, too, so small and graceful and light; the changelings are a trifle solid and brawny. The Diary of a Goose Girl Here, at least to my taste, the freakish changeling has got the better of Mr. Stevenson, and has brought in an element out of keeping with the steady lurid tragedy of fraternal hatred. Essays in Little She had proceeded with her changelings behind the kitchen, where one of the irrigation ditches ran under the fence from the hay-field to supply the house with water. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains In her own nest the cuckoo eggs we find, O'er which she broods to hatch the changeling kind: No portion for her own she has to spare, So much she dotes on her adopted care. The Way of the World When Oberon had teased her for some time, he again demanded the changeling boy; which she, ashamed of being discovered by her lord with her new favorite, did not dare to refuse him. Tales from Shakespeare "It is a changeling who will lay ill-luck at our doors." Nada the Lily Hence the numerous legends of changelings, some of which are very curious. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology He did not wring his hands, as doThose witless men who dareTo try to rear the changeling HopeIn the cave of black Despair:He only looked upon the sun,And drank the morning air. Ballad of Reading Gaol Paint, paint, paint, dost thou understand that, changeling, dangling thy hands like bobbins before thee? The Way of the World Soon was heard the rustle of innumerable fairies, come to dance to the changeling's music. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology |
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