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changeling

Child believed to be a fairy infant substituted for a human one immediately after its birth; a particularly difficult child was often thought to be a changeling.

It was supposed the exchange could only take place before the christening, and that afterwards the child was safe.


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Readers of the former CHANGELINGS who enjoyed the authors' return to the sentient planet Petaybeee will also want MAELSTROM, the ongoing saga which tells of a planet's formation of a new island to harbor a group of new refugees.
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The superbly crafted and enthusiastically recommended poems comprising Wayne Clifford's "The Book Of Were" are based on old engravings representing were-animals and were-folk, changelings at the edges of our known worlds and ordinary lives.
 
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