Ireland is a land rich in legends. It has an abundance of folklore and the funny thing is that this Irish mythology is popular throughout the world today thanks to comics and medieval fantasy novels.
We have ever talked about some of the most popular characters in Irish mythology. Today it is the turn of one who may not be very famous but is worth knowing: Changeling, the children changeo or son of fairies. Let's see what the legends say.
Say the irish legends that in general female fairies give birth to children with deformities. But they are so beautiful that they cannot tolerate an ugly baby so they often go to the mortal world and exchange their children for a healthy human baby. In the place of the human baby they then leave their own, a "changed child."
This changed child, the son of fairies, looks outwardly like a human baby but has none of the human emotions. These children are only happy when there is some misfortune in the house. The legend of the changed children or children of fairies centuries old and even William Shakespeare in Summer night Dream spoke of them. And if you see gone With the Wind, even the famous Scarlet O'Hara thinks that the illegitimate son of Rhett Butler is a changed child.