Fairies were also associated with changeling beliefs, Live Science reports, and were believed to “swap sickly fairy babies with healthy human ones.” In European folklore, changelings were ...

The fairy abodes have been scattered around the Manx countryside An art project has brought the Isle of Man's fairy folklore to life by hiding miniature buildings around the island. The delicately ...

Artist Claire Partington explores Scottish folklore and its stories of fairy changelings – unearthly beings who take the place of human children lost to, or stolen by, the fairies – in her ...