The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore: The West Eurasian and Mediterranean Tradition

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The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore brings together international scholarship on one of folklore’s most unsettling traditions: the belief that a human child could be taken and replaced by another being. Edited by Davide Ermacora and Simon Young, the volume explores changeling traditions across West Eurasia and the Mediterranean, including stories involving fairies, trolls, jinn and demons. An important reference work for serious readers of fairy lore and comparative folklore.