_Children Changed by 'Fées'._--M. Goulven Le Scour, at my request, wrote down in French the following account of actual changelings in Finistère:--'I remember very well that there was a woman of the village of Kergoff, in Plouneventer, who was called ----,[78] the mother of a family. When she had her first child, a very strong and very pretty boy, she noticed one morning that he had been changed during the night; there was no longer the fine baby she had put to bed in the evening; there was, instead, an infant hideous to look at, greatly deformed, hunchbacked, and crooked, and of a black colour. The poor woman knew that a _fée_ had entered the house during the night and had changed her child. 'This changed infant still lives, and to-day he is about seventy years old. He has all the possible vices; and he has tried many times to kill his mother. He is a veritable demon; he often predicts the future, and has a habit of running abroad during the night. They call him the "Little _Corrigan_", and everybody flees from him. Being poor and infirm now, he has been obliged to beg, and people give him alms because they have great fear of him. His nick-name is Olier. 'This woman had a second, then a third child, both of whom were seen by everybody to have been born with no infirmity; and, in turn, each of these two was stolen by a _fée_ and replaced by a little hunchback. The second child was a most beautiful daughter. She was _taken_ during the night and replaced by a little girl babe, so deformed that it resembled a ball. If her brother Olier was bad, she was even worse; she was the terror of the village, and they called her Anniac. The third child met the same luck, but was not so bad as the first and second. 'The poor mother, greatly worried at seeing what had happened, related her troubles to another woman. This woman said to her, "If you have another child, place with it in the cradle a little sprig of box-wood which has been blessed (by a priest), and the _fée_ will no longer have the power of stealing your children." And when a fourth child was born to the unfortunate woman it was not stolen, for she placed in the cradle a sprig of box-wood which had been blessed on Palm Sunday (_Dimanche des Rameaux_).[79] 'The first three children I knew very well, and they were certainly hunchbacked: it is pretended in the country that the _fées_ who come at night to make changelings always leave in exchange hunchbacked infants. It is equally pretended that a mother who has had her child so changed need do nothing more than leave the little hunchback out of doors crying during entire hours, and that the _fée_ hearing it will come and put the true child in its place. Unfortunately, Yvonna ---- did not know what she should have done in order to have her own children again.'