This story is interesting to me because it's not really from any one perspective but, rather, from an omniscient viewpoint. It gives insight into the typically horrible nature of the changeling child in the "normal" or human home. However, I think I would want to tell the story from the human child in the abnormal world because that would be more fun and, I think, more relate-able for my audience.
The Changeling From Great Britain
This is a different story from the first one. It talks more about the ugliness of the changeling child and gives another cruel way of disposing of it. This horrible act of ridding the changeling child from their normal lives could be a huge part of my story.
- A story idea: The human child that's been switched out could end up loving the supernatural family she's with but then her human family can't take the changeling being around anymore so they throw it in a fire or trick it in some way and the super natural family is forced to swap the kids again, only, this time, the human child is upset because she loved her other family and now she feels out of place in the human world.
The Underground People Try to Steal a Child
-Karl Bartsch, Legends, Tales, and Customs from Mecklenburg
This story caught my eye because it creates suspense! It's so creepy that this little woman is in this couple's room literally playing tug-of-war with the child and then is frightened off. This would make an excellent beginning for my story.
-Story Idea: I might want to make the supernatural parent's seem evil at first but then you realize they're actually super nice and good beings. Or, maybe, I'll make the human parents tell their true child when she comes back that the beings that took her were evil and stole her away. This information won't match up to the child though. She'll still think her supernatural family is kind and good.
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