But changelingsfrequently conform to the more civilized usage of measuring their age by years.
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.
In the chapter on Changelings I had occasion to refer to some instances of women being carried off at a critical time in their lives.
Instances need not be multiplied; it will be enough to show that one of the horrible methods of disposing of changelings referred to in the last paragraph came under judicial notice no longer ago than the month of May 1884.
Mr. Mitchell-Innes tells us that the fear of changelings exists in China.
Yes, and you may safely bet that the Changelings are behind it.
You Changelings are becoming more Amphibian every day and less Human.
When the time comes for hordes of Changelings to sweep out of the sea and overwhelm the Landfolk, they will have no compunctions about cutting the throats of their fellow-creatures.
And in those ten years," she mocked him, "the Amphibs and the Amphibian-changelings will have won the planet.
Sea-changelings are conditioned from babyhood to love blood.
It is the Changelings who are behind this restlessness--the Human element.
The references in that play to changelings reminds us that we have not yet referred to this notable piece of family practice.
A poor woman who once had twins had them adroitly carried away soon after birth, and two of these elf-changelings substituted.
The old folklore belief in incubi and succubi as the parents of changelings is brought into connection with the theory of direct diabolic begettal.
But," he adds, "such changelings are said not to live more than to the eighteenth or nineteenth year.
Daily they drop a little lower from the first ideal, and for a while continue to accept these changelings with a gross complacency.
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.
The monsters would not be monsters except to rustic prejudice, and the changelings would be simply experiments in creation.
Monsters and changelings were pointed to by Locke with a certain controversial relish: they proved that nature was not compressed or compressible within Aristotelian genera and species, but was a free mechanism subject to indefinite change.
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.
But the creed of ignorance everywhere as regardschangelings is a very cruel one, and reminds us of the tests of the witchcraft trials.
Closely akin to the subject of changelings is that of adults or well-grown children being led away to live with the Tylwyth Teg.
But as changelings seem to have come from the North, we cannot consent to receive this theory.
With the above fine satire I bring my remarks on Fairy Changelings to a close.
Here everybody will be ready to ask, If changelings may be supposed something between man and beast, pray what are they?
A huge appetite is a frequent characteristic of changelings in fairy-stories (258.
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.
Fairy changelings may be recognized by tricky habits, constant crying, and other unusual characteristics.
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 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 first three children I knew very well, and they were certainly hunchbacked: it is pretended in the country that the fees who come at night to make changelings always leave in exchange hunchbacked infants.
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.
These changelings would waste away and die in a short time after being left.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "changelings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
