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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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Then Rebecca had gone away, and in the long months of absence her mind and soul had grown out of her mother's knowledge, so that now, when Aurelia had time and strength to study her child, she was like some enchanting changeling.
It is a changeling who will lay ill-luck at our doors.
And this changeling called herself by the same name as the many-coloured, clinging maid of yore; she of the frequent laughter, and the many sighs, and the kind, stolen glances.
 
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