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Date Posted: 08:44:38 12/26/03 Fri
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's message, "The Challenge" on 23:15:03 12/25/03 Thu
>The Changeling
>
>Thomas Keightley
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>A couple of Strathspey lads who dealt in whiskey that
>never paid duty, which they used to purchase in
>Glenlivat,and sell at Badenoch and Fort William, were
>one night laying in stock at Glenlivat when they heard
>the child in the cradle give a piercing cry, just as
>if it had been shot. The mother, of course, blessed
>it, and the Strathspey lads took no further notice,
>and soon after set out with their goods.
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>They had not gone far when they found a fine healthy
>child lying all alone on the road-side, which they
>soon recognized as that of their friend. They saw at
>once how the thing was. The fairies had taken away the
>real child and left a stock, but, owing to the pious
>ejaculation of the mother, they had been forced to
>drop it.
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>As the urgency of their business did not permit them
>to return, they took the child with them, and kept it
>till the next time they had occasion to visit
>Glenlivat. On their arrival they said nothing about
>the child, which they kept concealed. In the course of
>conversation, the mother took occasion to remark that
>the disease which had attacked the child the last time
>they were there had never left it, and she had not
>little hopes of its recovery. As if to confirm her
>statement, it continued uttering most piteous cries.
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>To end the matter at once, the lads produced the real
>child healthy and hearty, and told how they had found
>it. An exchange was at once effected, and they
>forthwith proceeded to dispose of their new charge.
>For this purpose they got an old creel to put him in
>and some straw to light under it. Seeing the serious
>turn matters were likely to take, he resolved not to
>await the trial, but flew up the smoke-hole, and when
>at the top he cried out that things would have gone
>very differently with them had it not been for the
>arrival of their guests.
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>Source: 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.
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