In the second of our fABLEd series, Lucy explores the Changling myth, the belief that healthy children would be swapped for monstrous, deformed and disabled fairies and left for the human parents to raise. This episode contains a discussion of abuse and violent death.
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Further Information
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0015587X.1988.9716425?journalCode=rfol20
https://mappingignorance.org/2020/06/22/the-changelings-fairy-tales-about-autism/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changeling
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