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Originally Posted by teh603
Fairies swap normal babies and replace them with fairy babies. How do you tell? They either learn how to talk extremely early (and extremely well) or suddenly become very sickly.
Edit: The first part of it was probably kids showing up with Aspergers, and the parents trying to find an excuse to do nasty things to them.
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Some folklore was invented to help rather than harm though. Jenny Greenteeth is an example of that. She was believed to live in bodies of water and if a child got too close she would snatch them up and drag them under to her home. Since few knew how to swim way back when the danger of drowning was a major concern and anything that kept kids from large bodies of water that they might drown in was a plus as far as adults were concerned.