Aberdeen to Elfhame: Rescued from the Otherworld (Scottish Folklore)

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Scottish folklore is rife with tales of children being abducted by the fae or old gods, sometimes this would be in the form of changelings, where the supernatural beings would replace a newborn human child with one of their own, In other instances the babe would be replaced by a piece of wood enchanted to look and act like the human child. The fae would use these children as slaves in the otherworld, they would grow in service of the old gods and attend there every whim.
But in Scotland it was believed that the fae required us to live, at least through infancy. The old scholars tell of the importance of human milk, and how it is necessary in the survival of the young Sith. This would be the main reason that the new borns were switched, they fae court gained a servant and the Sith child would be nursed and suckled by the milk of the human mother, until the spirit was strong enough to return to the otherworld, commonly abandoning the poor woman who had raised them.
But on very rare occasions the Sith would capture adult women, usually new mothers, to act as nursemaids to the highborn fae or rulers of elfhame. And it is just such a tale we will look at today. Stolen by the fae

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