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    Changelings: Or, Beware Baby Snatchers of the Fairy Kingdom: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    Changelings: Or, Beware Baby Snatchers of the Fairy Kingdom: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
    Changelings: Or, Beware Baby Snatchers of the Fairy Kingdom: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Changelings: Or, Beware Baby Snatchers of the Fairy Kingdom: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection

    By W B Yeats and T. Crofton Croken

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    Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.

    This collection of terrifying tales of kidnapping and baby switching include excerpts from William Butler Yeats and T. Crofton Croker.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619400825
    Changelings: Or, Beware Baby Snatchers of the Fairy Kingdom: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection
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    W B Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

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    Changelings - W B Yeats

    The Hand that Rocks the Cradle

    Today's parent is an informed parent: from checkups to child locks, the modern mom and dad do everything they can to ensure their little one will be safe and happy. So it is a shame that so many parents are completely unaware of one of the biggest threats to babies out there: fairies. Yes, babies are of particular interest to fairies, and the wicked fae will often stop at nothing to get their hands on a precious little bundle.

    Many a parent has been tricked by the Queen of the Fairies, whose orders result in switching a creature from another realm for their human counterpart. When a sweet and robust baby goes ill, losing cheerful demeanor and coloring, perhaps developing a nasty cough that rattles the cradle, that is the sign of a changeling. When a calm and cuddly newborn becomes fussy and cries all hours of the night, it isn't colic, as so many foolish parents suspect. It is a much more likely to be the offspring of a foul troll or lovely pixie, switched with the sleeping babe while the exhausted parents slumbered.

    William Butler Yeats collected such stories from all over Ireland in the late 1800s, primarily from the peasant class, where folklore and the old ways taught people how to live in harmonious fear of the dangerous fairy folk. In this collection, we'll find excerpts from Yeats and T. Crofton Croker,

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