Recent Examples on the WebWhere to watch Krampus: Peacock 08 of 15 A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?—Huntley Woods, EW.com, 20 Oct. 2023 Their first four children are appropriately adorable, but their fifth child is a violent oddball and possibly a changeling.—Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023 Goblins steal a mother’s child and replace it with a ravenous changeling.—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023 Since then, the Star Trek franchise has studiously avoided the changelings.—Alex Cranz, The Verge, 2 Mar. 2023 The folktale of the changeling is here recontextualized into a modern setting.—Sheena Scott, Forbes, 18 June 2021 In most stories, a changeling is a fairy child that replaces a human one, typically without the baby or the human parents knowing.—Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Jan. 2021 True History of the Kelly Gang focuses its culture-wide vision into an unhidden life, divided into three sections: BOY is where young Ned (Orlando Schwerdt) resembles a pale, blond changeling who could become anything.—Armond White, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020 The young Joan—with her gift for painting, her passion for dancing, her bristling impatience with school rules, and her wanderlust—was more like a changeling.—Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2020
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