We’re looking at three changeling stories this week!
TW/child abuse. Please skip to 6:50 if you would like to avoid this discussion.

The Smith and the Fairies: https://folklorescotland.com/the-smith-and-the-fairies/
The Laird of Balmachie’s Wife: https://folklorescotland.com/elementor-430/

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Celtic Impulse by Kevin MacLeod
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SOURCES

https://sites.google.com/site/goodwhiskytastingsbelgium/home/history/legends-and-tales/the-laird-of-balmachie-s-wife 

https://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/folklore/the-laird-of-balmachies-wife/#:~:text=This%20tale%20involves%20a%20fairy,of%20Scotland%20by%20W.W%20Gribbins. 

https://fairytalez.com/the-laird-of-balmachies-wife/ 

https://britishfairies.wordpress.com/2020/12/06/clouds-of-fairies-evidence-of-fairy-swarms/ 

Sir Walter Scott, "On the Fairies of Popular Superstition" (Introduction to "The Tale of Tamlane," Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Poetic Works (Edinburgh: Ballantyne, 1833), vol. 2, pp. 321-323. 

Ashlimann, D, “Changeling Legends from the British Isles”, a collection of changeling stories found at http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html

Sugg, Richard, “Fairies: A Dangerous History”, (Reaktion Books, 2018) in Fairy Scapegoats: A History of the Persecution of Changeling Children, https://longreads.com/2018/06/08/fairy-scapegoats-a-history-of-the-persecution-of-changeling-children/

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