Fairies, Children and Changelings

Carolyne Larrington and Fay Hield talk about the strange interest
that fairies take in human infants, and the plight of children who
stumble into this world, and can’t get home. We explore how fairies
seem to have difficulty in giving birth, and they need humans
midwives to help. One of the strangest medieval stories is that of
the 'Green Children' who appear in the human world in
twelfth-century Suffolk and can’t find their way home again. We
also talk about changelings, the puny, wizened infants swapped by
the fairies for healthy human children.