Michelle McLaughlin
ASIN: B00AFWLC28
Publisher: McLaughlin Group
Pages: 100
Changeling Legends from the British Isles, Germany, and Scandinavia examines the folk legends of changelings - children that have been "swapped" by the Devil, leaving a child of the underworld in the place of a newborn babe. The book begins with an examination of these tales, explaining the purpose they served in pre-industrial Europe, and why these legends were considered to be truth, and not fiction, by society at large. Following this are two poems about changeling children and a variety of changeling legends from the British Isles, Germany, and Northern Europe.