changeling
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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
A changeling is what a fairy or demon or troll leaves behind when it kidnaps a human baby.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2023
A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2022
Gretel may or may not be a fairy changeling, although given the fact that she has two pupils in each eye, she probably is.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2019
It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Unless the Founders themselves chose to withhold the cure from certain changelings.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020
At one point, Bella thinks, “O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.”
From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017
In addition to trolls, gnomes and changelings, Arcadia has goblins, lots of them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2016
Little human changelings, raised in Faerie, but not educated with the Gentry as we are.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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