Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

‘Changeling’, as noted in a recent post, was the name given by country folk on the Celtic fringe prior to children who were bewitched (i.e. ill): they were called ‘changelings’…

…to the changeling case in question but from the New York Times in 1895 and referring to Bridget Cleary, perhaps the last changeling killing. What Beachcombing finds fascinating is the…

Beachcombing’s eternal interest in fairies has taken an unusual turn this summer: he has been reading accounts, including some enjoyable ones and some fairly ghastly ones about changelings. Changelings for…

…AT yahoo DOT com For contributors rules are (i) the changeling should be real (no tenth-hand accounts about villages two hundred years ago) and (ii) the changeling has to be…

…to trick the non-talking changeling into an indiscretion. Typically the changeling, who pretends not to speak, is excited into uttering something by his foster parents’ bizarre behaviour. The classic text…

…(to use an inadequate word) ‘punished’ children because they believed that they were fairies or ‘changelings’: the real child had, the families believed, been spirited away. Beach has been primarily…

…in perfect health. ‘The wasted body is not taken into the hill, for it is usually regarded as not the body of the deceased buy rather that of a changeling,…

…be interesting to know how late such changeling stories were told in Ireland: changeling tales are one of the first part of fairy beliefs to disappear because they make fairies…

…ever since.’ This kind of changeling material is surprising this late in a Celtic area. In Cornwall, for example, serious changeling belief apparently died out in the mid nineteenth century….

…could always try and play a fairy in Changeling: the Dreaming: In which you can play a fairy, including a lot of scary ones (but with seelie and unseelie courts)…

…Beach has the misfortune to be associated with a humanities only institution. Another reason to hate doctors… 1) Roy Muir, ‘The Changeling Myth and pre-psychology of parenting’, British Journal of…

…universe that humans walk through at their peril. 6 April 2013: Next is Louis K who writes: You could always try and play a fairy in Changeling: the Dreaming: In…

…(another post another day) to medieval and modern legends about the fairy changeling. Is mesmerism/hypnotism really powerful enough to convince a child to leave with someone against the child’s will:…

…to the Scottish beliefs about elf-shot and the efficacy of a fairy arrow against it. Briggs moves on: The next story was also Tom Field’s. The CHANGELING tale has a…

…they had a changeling (a fairy had replaced their baby), they would sometimes take their ‘changelings’ and leave it a night at a fairy tree or a fairy fort or…