How Changelings Changed the World

In 1851, a man in Ireland literally roasted his child to death because he believed the boy to be a fairy. In 1869, an exorcism was attempted by dipping a child three times in a lake in Ireland. Another woman actually left her infant on the shore of a lake and walked away, expecting the fairies to come and make the swap. Sometimes neighbors stepped in when the parents of an obvious changeling would do nothing.