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Fairies, Children and Changelings

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Modern Fairies
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Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who stumble into this world, and can’t get home.
We explore how fairies seem to have difficulty in giving birth, and they need humans midwives to help. One of the strangest medieval stories is that of the 'Green Children' who appear in the human world in twelfth-century Suffolk and can’t find their way home again. We also talk about changelings, the puny, wizened infants swapped by the fairies for healthy human children.

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Series
Modern Fairies
People
Carolyne Larrington
Fay Hield
Brian McMahon
Marry Waterson
Ben Nicholls
Barney Morse-Brown.
Keywords
fairies
changelings
green children
babies
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 19/02/2019
Duration: 00:23:54

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