| If placed in a cradle it will protect the child from being stolen by fairies and replaced with changelings. |
| Margaret's was the last royal birth which needed to be witnessed by a government minister, a remnant of the days when changelings were smuggled in on warming pans. |
| The changelings look identical, but the human mother can tell that it is not really her human baby, because it is far more sulky and difficult. |
| Then she woke one morning to find him attached to her breast, and she wondered why she hadn't fed any of the other changelings this way. |
| Stevie and Mikie had been known to enquire whether they were in fact changelings, as they looked nothing like any known relative on either side. |
| Physically and metaphorically these two changelings are very different. |
