changeling

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That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2022

The cast and crew are required to be vaccinated; an actor who played the changeling child in “Midsummer” was taken out of the cast because he was too young to be vaccinated.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2021

The one mythological aspect of the show I did like was its use of the concept of a changeling, which is when a fairy baby gets switched with a human at birth.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2021

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady