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- DictionaryChange·ling/ˈCHānjliNG/
noun
- 1. a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy.
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A changeling, also historically referred to as an auf or oaf, is a human-like creature found throughout much of European folklore. A changeling was a substitute left by a supernatural being on kidnapping a human being. Sometimes the changeling was a 'stock' (a piece of wood made magically to resemble the kidnapped human), more often the changeling was a supernatural being made magically to look li... Wikipedia