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Like a changeling—a motif that recurs throughout the novel—the old narrator has been taken and replaced by someone new.
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Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
—Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
The motif of changelings—of fairies taking a human child and leaving a nonhuman child in its place—comes up throughout the story.
—Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
—Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Changeling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/changeling. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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changeling
noun
change·ling
ˈchānj-liŋ 
: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
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