Changeling
This is a deformed or ugly child that had been left by fairies in exchange for a more attractive one. According to legend fairies could only snatch infants before they were christened.
Changeling Legends from the British Isles
Chimaera, a Hideous Beast of Greek Mythology
Chivalric Traditions -- Chivalric Orders, Chivalry, and Heraldry
Chronicle of The Fourth Crusade
Chronique, Journal of Chivalry
Classical Mythology [library.
for Abel, all the rest seemed more like a crop of devils than men, such was their malice and wickedness. I must add that he did not actually produce demons and changelings as some of the vulgar and irreverent have falsely claimed...
carry it away into their own haunts-- their intention being to save it from what seems to them the horrible fate of growing up into the average human being! Vague traditions of such attempts account for part of the folk-lore stories about changelings, ...
 See also: Angel, Death, Fairies, Spirit, Christ
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