You carry a child. You endure the pain of labor and the joy of looking upon their face for the first time. You care for and nurture this child.  One night, you lovingly place your child in its crib and go to bed.  You wake in the morning, enter the nursery to check on and feed your baby, you approach the crib and when your eyes meet the tiny little being lying in your babies bed… is not the baby you placed in there the night before.

Changeling: FOLKLORE, WRITTEN BY: The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, July 20 1998  https://www.britannica.com/art/changeling-folklore

Swapping Babies: The Disturbing Faerie Changeling Phenomenon by Neil Ruston, DECEMBER 27, 2016 https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/swapping-babies-disturbing-faerie-changeling-phenomenon-007261

Changelings: An Essay by D. L. Ashliman (1997) http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/changeling.html

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Changeling Lore: the Supernatural Vs. the real Lore by Alexandria Ingham (2018) https://hiddenremote.com/2018/06/22/changeling-lore-supernatural-vs-real/

Changelings and Fairy Babies, June 24, 2012 by The Line, the Lash and the Curl https://myndandmist.wordpress.com/2012/06/24/changelings-and-fairy-babies/

Changelings (2000-2004) http://www.irelandseye.com/paddy3/preview3.htm

The Changeling  John Greenleaf Whittier, The Complete Poetical Works, Cambridge Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1894), pp. 138-40.    http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/whittier.html#changeling

Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries, a new edition, revised and greatly enlarged (London: H. G. Bohn, 1850), p. 393. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html#Strathspey

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Thomas Johnson Westropp, "A Study of Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland," Folk-Lore: A Quarterly Review, vol. 32 (1921), pp. 103-105. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/britchange.html#Strathspey

Behavior & Belief: The Enduring Legend Of The Changeling (March 1, 2018) Stuart Vyse https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/the-enduring-legend-of-the-changeling/

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

How a Real Genetic Disorder Could Have Inspired Fairy Tales BY JENNIFER LATSON, JUNE 20, 2017 https://time.com/4823574/mythology-williams-syndrome/

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Ireland’s most sinister superstition: The changeling POSTED ON JULY 20, 2014 BY ROISIN https://randomdescent.wordpress.com/2014/07/20/irelands-most-sinister-superstition-the-changeling/

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Will Alleged Killer Mom Be a Wake-Up Call? By Bryan Robinson (January 7, 2006) https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90634&page=1

Andrea Yates Biography (1964–) UPDATED:APR 16, 2019, ORIGINAL:APR 2, 2014 https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/andrea-yates

Hallucinations and Delusions After a Brain Injury by Brian Greenwald, PhD Posted on BrainLine.com December 16, 2010. Reviewed July 26, 2018 https://www.brainline.org/author/brian-greenwald/qa/hallucinations-and-delusions-after-brain-injury

Characteristics of Psychotic Disorder Due to Traumatic Brain Injury: An Analysis of Case Studies in the Literature 1 May 2002 Daryl Fujii, Ph.D., and Iqbal Ahmed, M.D. https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/jnp.14.2.130

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/traumatic-brain-injury/symptoms-causes /syc-20378557

The Real-Life Damage of Changeling Lore April 15, 2013 by Chelsea Martin https://fairyroom.com/2013/04/the-real-life-damage-of-changeling-lore/

The Long-Term Impact of Neglectful Parents: The lifelong effects of childhood neglect; Karyl McBride Ph.D. The Legacy of Distorted Love  Aug 21, 2017 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-legacy-distorted-love/201708/the-long-term-impact-neglectful-parents

Bruce D. Perry and John Marcellus, “The Impact of Abuse and Neglect on the Developing Brain” Scholastic.com, http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/bruceperry/abuse_neglect.htm.