"Changeling Child" by Heather Dale (with Lyrics)
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2012
- A video of the lyrics to the song, "Changeling Child" by Heather Dale, from her album, "The Gabriel Hounds".
The font I used is called Informal Roman.
The picture is from an illustrated children's book of "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Disclaimer: I do not own, or claim to own, anything used in this project. Everything is the copyright of the original owner; this is strictly a fan-made video meant only for entertainment. I make no profit from this video.
The irony is that the fae didn't even necessarily have malevolence in mind; they might have just not _understood_ and you'd get the same horrorshow result.
I dont know why this gives me goosebumps.. that's so sad.
I don't think they cared about the result.
Earth born spirits don't know good or evil like human beings do.
They're sort of chaotic, and they only obey the universe, now our laws of right and wrong.
for what i know the only moral of stories involving the fairye is you do not ever make a deal or interact with them in any way
oh I think they knew. they are tricksters. everything has a price.
"We the undersigned fair folk do bequeath to the undersigned mortal one changeling child which shall age into adulthood upon specific request of said child's adoptive parents. However, failure by the mortal parents to make the above-mentioned request shall result in the child remaining an infant for all eternity, regardless of the natural life spans of its mortal parents. We the fair folk cannot be held legally responsible if the mortal parents fail to ask for the child we give them to age."
Damn, leave it to those middle aged citizens to not read the fine print
I formaly ask all infants of changlings ...grow into adulthood...remake your world
@@glittercupcake9258 Considering most people of the age were illiterate, that's not surprising.
Yeah, the Fair Folk would give lawyers aneurysms with their contracts.
Who made Theater raven the fairy lawyer??!
Moral of the song:
When talking to a faerie, and they offer you a gift, be very exact with what you say.
And make sure you have a bargaining chip in case they do something unexpected
With the fairies it wouldn't matter how careful you were. They were worse than the Jinn when it came to granting wishes.
or rust blind the chips to fall where they may.
@@kvonkirk2340 True but Jinn were never suppose to deal with humans, its those who disobey that order that are the wish granting Jinn, I think they are also not even suppose to interact with humans but that is left to interpretation in myth and ones own beliefs.
This is just a good thing to keep in mind when dealing with anything that grants wishes. Use careful wording and ask all the important questions. Will the baby grow up? Are you gonna kill my kid to get insurance money if I ask for cash? Why is it called a Soul Gem, and where exactly do Witches come from?
You may not think it matters now, but you will when you wake up in a bathtub full of ice, minus *both* kidneys and with the very essence of your being stuffed inside a piece of jewelry.
The fairies were just like "what?! We GAVE you what you asked for! God, humans are so ungrateful."
"For fifty years she rocked that babe, it's said she rocks him still" *shiver* Forget Tinkerbell guys, fairies aren't cuddly.
As with most other myths and even Peter Pan himself, they've been Americanized and Disney-ified to being cute and cuddly fun time creatures.
This is more often than not their truest natures and why, especially when dealing with the Fey, one must be very specific in asking for favors!
most fairies are super sweet and loving beings- but not all.
If you think Tinkerbell is cuddly, you've never actually read Peter Pan. You do remember the part where she tells the Lost Boys to shoot Wendy down, don't you? I thought that was even in the Disney adaptation. It's certainly in the original book.
No, you don’t understand, the Fae are a very kind and genuine people but they don’t speak much Irish! When she asked for a baby, they gave her one, but didn’t understand she wanted a child who would grow up too! Especially because the faeries don’t grow like humans do, so they gave her a babe, but didn’t understand her request quite right
goodtoby07
Your examples are highly Americanized and have nothing to do with Irish folklore. Some of the fey are dangerous and like a good prank, like Fear Dearg, but it is always said at the beginning of the story.
And no, the fey do not speak much Irish, they speak their own Fae language.
Moral of the story: don't make deals with fairies.
Don't talk to fairies.
Don't look at fairies.
Don't think about fairies.
Stay away from the fairies.
Actually I think it's, be very careful what you ask for
Some Fae are actually very nice. Just saying. But yes, be weary. They are very literal.
Don't eat the food, don't drink the wine, don't fall asleep.
Those faeries will screw you over every time. I was married to one for eighteen years.
true!
What happened in this story was not the fault of the Faye creatures. Fairies, like Genies don't really understand human language, so when she asked for a baby, she got just that. A changeling who would be a child forever. She never asked for a human infant, who would grow into an adult, one day.
There's nothing in fairy lore to suggest that they don't understand what they're doing. It's not a matter of misunderstanding, it's either trickery for its own sake or because fairy children need human milk.
@@kooborkoala200 there is nothing to suggest that fae cant raise their own children either...
@@tobak952 Some versions of fairy lore do say that they can't, or that they prefer not to. There's a number of other explanations of why changelings happen, but, like with much fairy lore, the most common is simply that they're capricious beings that we can't understand. manchesterhistorian.com/2014/changelings-possession-and-exorcism/ This link mentions the claim that fae children need human milk, as well as a couple other traditional explanations.
It varies from story to story. In some they're innocent but completely disconnected from humanity, in some they're malicious in the same way as traditional depictions of trickster gods (ie., well, it was really funny *to them* that the baby didn't grow up; why didn't she just throw it away when she realized it was broken?), and in others, they kind of look at people like cockroaches.
That last one would be my guess with this story, given how she "bargains" with them for hours and then gets ignored later. It sounds like the story of a woman who finds out about a portal to the Otherworld and takes what she believes to be reasonable precautions before going in. They'd probably try to kill her, realize they couldn't because she had some amulet/had performed some ritual/said the right words, then they'd try to scare her but realize that she hadn't just procured/done things x, y, and z accidentally and that she knew they couldn't hurt her. *Then* they would start "negotiating". Regardless of her wording, they'd twist it into something awful. In this case, I'm guessing pretending that they were so sad to lose the child and getting her to promise to take good care of it until it grew up. In a way that, of course, never implied that it would actually do that.
Then they send her home where she'll be a happy mama for the first few months, they close the door she used, and they let her eternal vigil (that stretches into madness as she comes to believe, over the centuries in the Afterlife, that the baby will *totally* grow up someday and starts trying to show it to travelers) serve as a reminder for the annoying hairless apes not to interrupt the frolicking.
@ShadowQueen Skye What's your picture?
This reminds me of an honestly very sad book I read called "The Moorchild," which was about a fairy traded for a human child, and how lonely she was among humans, and how much everyone hated her. Poor girl even lived in a blacksmith's house. It was one of the few books I cried to as I read.
I remember that book! I read it when I was around 7 or 8, and it was such a vivid story I have never forgotten it! It plays in my head to this day, such a haunting tale of misfortune and misunderstandings. I think this song was inspired by the story.
+STiiTCH i would highly doubt she based this song off of the book, the book is pretty new, only twenty or so years old while tales of changeling children are hundreds of years old. I dont just highly doubt it, its just flat out isnt based on it and its childish to think so narrowly
I am so sorry you are having such a miserable day that you felt the need to berate somebody online. I hope it made you feel better like you intended, made you feel like you have a little more self-worth and validation lol. I pity you. For all you know, with the book being a fairly common title, it was indeed the inspiration. It is childish to think so narrowly, as you put it, assuming that is NOT the case. Anybody who has been into fantasy for a number of years considers it common knowledge that changeling stories have been around for centuries. Perhaps, instead of blatantly looking for shit to gripe about on UA-cam because you have zero control over your personal life and feel the need to take it out on random people online because it is the only time you could possibly have the courage to speak your burning thoughts, you should spend more time on Google looking for witty insults and banter to fill your personal book because yours lack originality and depth. Cheers! (Docked points for my ridiculously long run-on sentence, but I think I got the point across fairly well :D )
Apologies on spamming your thread, Venus. My comeback was obviously not to you, I hoped you would not take it as such. Sadly, UA-cam derped on me and decided not to let me actually reply to said numbnuts when clicking the Reply option under the name.
+STiiTCH perhaps you didnt deserve my previous comment before, but now you certainly do. Chill out my dude, i know you really enjoyed psych 101 but you arent as smart as you think you are
I think the most powerful part of this though? It never said anywhere she loved her child less
If it's one thing I've learned from studying the myths and legends of my grandmother's Irish heritage, it's that the Fae folk are FAR different than our modern ideas of them..and more often than not will take amusement in the misery they can inflict on humans. This one shows the whole "Be careful what you wish for" idea taken to it's logical conclusion...she asked them for a baby..she got him, but he would never grow. They kept their promise of giving her a baby, but they played a cruel trick in the end..but on their end they found it quite funny.
"Be careful what you wish for, lest your wish be granted."
Olgierd von Everec
Carter Gates
Or at least how you say your sentence of your wish.
You're... Immortal?
I hoped to see a Witcher quote on a song like this, wish granted, thanks.
I find this song chilling in ways modern horror films wish they could be. This song left me more uncomfortable than two hours of jump scare nonsense, yet I keep listening to it!
Oh man, so true. Me too.
Ditto that, and why I post it on my FB feed. I love sharing these kinds of songs around Halloween, to get people thinking beyond the stereotypical Monster Mash and scary sound effects.
JasanQuinn yes I second that
JasanQuinn this would make an amazing and chilling horror fantasy movie!! OO
They’d ruin it with cliches and cgi things growling and crawling on the floor
This is a beautiful song, but the myth of the "changeling" is real and sad. Long ago, children who were physically and/or mentally defective were believed to be "changelings", and were often abused or neglected or subjected to bizarre and sometimes horrific rituals that were supposed to change them back. I sometimes see a distinct similarities between those practices and many of the quack "therapies" that are supposed to "cure" or "manage" autism spectrum conditions today. At least his mother cared for him and cradled him for 50 years, which shows that she loved him. #AutismSpectrum
Sarah Gray okay while this is true most people led the child to the forest/ left the kid there and was basically like “Yeah I miss my kid but they’re with the fairy’s so they’re fine”
+Transgender tidbits They often didn't wait until they were children to be led. This happened to babies. The torturous rituals as well as the abandonment in the woods
And by long ago you mean that how?? You know that still happens in some countries today right? Africa is among the worst for killing baby for being witches there was a fire that day and a baby born. Must be babies fault.
king VonKirk it’s their culture. Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t give you the right to call them evil
@@thomas4723 if only we understood, fairness at the speed of joy !BINKy
Gods, I love the different ways you can take this!
1. Literally
2. Still literal, but the fae gave her a changeling (fae are jerks tbh)
or, my personal favorite
3. A woman prayed to the fae for a child and after he was born, he got ill and passed on during infancy. She rocked his corpse, as she'd likely never bare another child again. She also prayed to make him better, to no avail, hence the rocks 'slept' and the fae didn't listen
Wow, 3. is even darker than my interpretation (it's a metaphor for a woman who got a special needs child)
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My alternate theory, slightly similar to number 3. The Woman prayed to the fae, got pregnant and suffered a stillbirth. Endlessly rocking the babe due to guilt from the stillbirth.
Vatican's symbols are jerks
@Beatrice Johnston I found the faerie
I love how this song could have multiple meanings. It could be taken literal, or be a metaphor for a sickly, disabled child, which is what the changeling myth was based on. :(
+nerdieone1 The most positive enlightenment for those who think higher than self.
That makes sense why it makes me so emotional. I was thinking the best you can do is give the best life you can while you are lucky enough to have them.
nerdieone1 I hate the changeling myth. It's a great reminder of how people like me were fucking murdered in the past for being devil-spawn or whatever
Yeh the changeling myth is a very sad one. :(
I've thought this sounds like an almost spot-on metaphor for a child born developmentally delayed or maybe autistic.
"The fairies would not answer her/The stones were dark and slept" is hte part that gets me -- very applicable to modern parents who desperately go to all the doctors seeking for help only to find out there's nothing to be done. :/
What a haunting song. It makes me so sad to think that lonely woman rocked that crib for FIFTY years! Wonderful song! You truly conveyed the heartache of such a tale. And of course there is something to learn from this: don't trust they fey. Don't talk to them, and definitely don't make deals with them.
Also, never except gifts from the fey, they never give anything away for free. Never step inside a fairy ring or hill. You may never leave. If you are in a faerie's home, never eat the food, you'll be trapped forever. And what ever you do, never, ever, EVER dance with the fey. You will dance until you grow old and die.
+Preston Estes That doesn't sound so bad. Dancing and being merry for the remainder of my life sounds pretty nice to me
+Rodes Gardner But that is all your life would be. A toy with no human interaction. No family, no children.
When I was little, there was this one fairy circle in my neighbors yard, I loved playing there......and I could have been kidnapped by magical mini people xD
dancing with them: bad idea, so tempting tho
But are all of them like that i think there are also the good ones
If your child was taken away and replaced by the fey there were said to be several ways to get rid of the changeling child. The big one was brewing beer in egg shells. The babe would then remark on the strangeness of it exposing itself as a fey, and then its real parents would have to take the changeling and give back the child. Unfortunelty in her case it was a bargain and the fey never go back on one.
Preston Estes or you could throw it into the fireplace and your child would be brought back unharmed
Or, you could cook the child. The parents would hear the screams and come to rescue it. Depends on the age, older Changelings the strangeness does not work.
Huh, never heard if that one! Most of what I got about Changelings was from Spiderwick! Placking a key on the child's bedsheets, open iron scissors where the child sleeps (NOT RECOMMENDED!), turning the father's trousers inside-out (Odd,) and hanging them over the cradle, or putting rowan and garlic on the sides of the bed.
She'll be a mother with a baby. Forever.
The Fey don't quite do kindness right, do they?
yeaahh. there really is no such thing as good Fey. there's the evil ones and the really rude neutral ones.
^You forgot the total nutfuk ones and the ones who mean well when they turn you into a newt.
Actually that was her fault she never asked for it to grow up, she said "I want a baby" or "I want to have a child" thus never growing up!
Kindness? She invaded their home and spent all night bargaining with their queen. It was kind to let her out alive
Those fairies trolled her good.
+Jason Trolling Level: Expert
rekt
That's an understatement
What would you call a trolling by elves? Elving? :D
How is it trolling? So it never grew up but it still lived and she loved it to keep holding it. Granted kids need to grow up but not into the shit society humans raise them into. Humans destroy their ability to dream, day dream, and have imaginations. Only ones who get robbed are the kids
not only are they known to take your word literally in their dealings, but they love to find loopholes and ways to make you owe them for their 'service' even if it's not what you intended. and owing a favor to a fey can be..dangerous, to say the least.
Imagine if humans started to do the same in this ages ...........my mother told me to never lie so never lie I did.
things that don't lie are yet harder to trust
Hauntingly beautiful, don't you think? I love Heather Dale's music. It's exceptionally composed.
@briana beals, the fae are very literal creatures, they are also very cunning, but rarely are they mean, they simply want the thebest for themselves, regardless of the expense. A wolf is not mean to the deer it hunts, it simply places it's own needs first
You know a bit about them?
May I ask what else you know, in private? I have my reason. Sorry and thank you. BB.
Sure, email me at witchpagan@gmail.com
I think the fae are likely used as parable. This song in particular, due to its chilling narrative, carries a very common message; be careful what you wish for. Or, perhaps, to make the best of what you have.
Brave tried to modernise this kind of tale, and I think it did it well. For all the light hearted fun and cheeriness in that film, at its heart is a grim story about people who are changed into animals and become mindless beasts in pursuit of their, or someone else's desires. The only way to break the curse is to look inward, not outward.
I interpret this song in much the same way. Being without child made the mother unhappy, but there were other options open to her. They could have tried to adopt a child (let's face it, in ages past people died far more often). They could have simply accepted their lot and lived happily together without a child.
But instead they turn to magic to fix their problem, and for a brief time it did. And then it became a curse. I cannot imagine that woman, cradling the same baby for fifty years, was happy. Her life was likely Hel, filled with fear of what people would think if they learned of her Changeling child. How many times did they consider killing the child? How frightened were they of what the fae might do to them if they did?
This, to me, is one of the things I so like about pagan folklore. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all tell stories where the moral is "Yahweh will fix it", or "Just do what Yahweh tells you and it will all be fine." Pagan stories tell you "fix it yourself," because nobody who ever demanded the Gods to solve their problems for them ever met a good end.
JasanQuinn i love your opinions on things. 😁keep writing my dude.
Gosh I love Heather Dale's songs so far. I love how each has a story that goes behind it, and the song goes through the story.
Hmm... Many ways to interpret this song:
1.) Either "changeling" is being used in the literal sense and the child just stayed in the form of an infant.
2.) Since changelings are mystical creatures, its takes way longer for them to grow.
3.) The word "changeling " is being used in the place of retardation and the child never mentality grew up enough to care for himself.
As with stories of fair folk, you need to be very specific when dealing with them. Magic is often portrayed as very strict and literal, which is why rituals tend to be complex and instructions are followed down to the minute details.
The moral of this tale is to not make bargains with the fair folk.
Or just word it better
this song always makes me cry, and grateful my son was born in 2014! otherwise he would have been considered a changeling because of his webbed fingers and how strong, beautiful and advanced he is already
This song gives me chills in a way very little does. A perfect example of why you don't deal with the fair folk, they're too clever and slippery. No matter how desprate you are, the fae are never an option, they'll fulfill your wish and then twist it so you wish it hadn't been
Yet another cautionary tale in this song. Fairies are not loveable, playful little creatures like some would have you believe. The Fae are a cruel, beautiful and dangerous people.
+Gemini Starr (GaarasBloodRose) Indeed. They CAN be loving and peaceful, but only when they feel like it. :)
Also depends if they're seelie or unseelie.
***** I think I'd trust an Unseelie faerie more than a Seelie one. Just based on the stories I've heard and read.
+Gemini Starr (GaarasBloodRose) The unseelie are more likely to be cruel and dangerous and as such, are more predictable to an extent. The Seelie are more likely to be kind, but fucking hell they can be mischievous as fuck
MrDinmaker Exactly. You can trust a jerk to be a jerk, but a jerk who pretends to be kind? Not so much. Actually, the same is true for people in general XD
A Beautiful haunting song of Irish and English folklore xxx A lot of these stories need to be preserved by songs...x
So basically in this song a woman who couldn't have children begged the faeries for a baby and they gave her one, but it never grew up, it always remained a baby?
Yes, that's right. Of course, she obviously wanted a child who would grow up, but since she only asked for "a baby", that's what the fairies gave her. They take things literally when people ask for things (if they choose to comply at all), so the request has to be worded very carefully.
TheaterRaven thanks
+TheaterRaven lol be careful of what you wish for.
+Pie Pierrot (Eta) There are some that see it as a metaphor changeling children in the day were normally autistic or had mental difficulties and would stay mentally young so when she say would never make him grow they could mean would never make him grow mentally
Cubby Kovu that can be true. Myth gets alter here n there as it gets retold. It could even b that the fairy weren't even fairy, but human.
Every time I listen to this, I get a very strong sense of chilling sickness. It's just such a beautifully portrayed story within the song. I listen to it on repeat CONSTANTLY. xD
how weird is it that in America we have portrayed fairies as good and kind. where on earth did we get that idea?!
Fairies can be good and kind, but only if they choose to. They're not the ditzy, airheaded, goody-goodies that Disney's Tinkerbell and the like lead kids to believe.
God only knows
I live in America and I believe that Fairies are like humans you don't know what they are capable of until you think on it, plus the chick asked for a baby so she got a baby, she didn't say "I wish to bear a child whom of which I may watch as they grown into an intelligent being". No all she said was "I wish to have a baby" so she got one and it stayed what? A baby, so thins time its her own fault a bit
We started with honest men. Honest men who deal fairly with any and all have nothing to fear from faerie.
Um . . . we started with sexist slave-owners who kinda meant well.
And Faerie wouldn't give a shit either way, because they're FAERIE. Not happy Disney elves.
Make no deals with the good folk, for they always keep their word.
Something fell off of my bookshelf and my eyes started watering, like, a lot halfway through this song...
I remember having this very indepth discussion with my friend about the fey. She said that they loved teaching humans lessons. I laughed my ass off, because they don't want to teach humans anything. They just like messing with them.
They didn't call them tricksters for nothing.
@Centralist Australia It's entirely possible to learn a lesson from people who don't intend to teach you anything. That's often the case with the fairies.
@Centralist Australia I know. OP said, " . . . they don't *want* to teach humans anything", which is often true. I was saying that just because they don't _want_ to teach us anything doesn't mean we can't learn lessons from their unpleasant antics. In the case of this song, I guess the lesson might be "be very specific when asking for something from the fairies", or maybe even "just straight-up don't ask the fairies for anything".
Well, the lesson here was: "stay away from faeries. the will deceive you.
The faeries in this story may very well have done the best they could. Like a lot of other wish granting magical creatures, they take things very literally. They don't understand implications. If you ask for a baby you get a baby. Nothing more.
Imagine if humans started to do the same in this ages ...........my mother told me to never lie so never lie I did.
things that don't lie are yet harder to trust
In the inheritance cycle, all the elves spoke a language in which you could never lie. you can tell the truth but still be dishonest.
@@shallandavarpainterofsouls9509 sooo riddles? That is what the book " the cruel prince" is based on where the fae cannot lie but they make riddles
This is DEFINITELY one of my favorites!!!!
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fae are cunning and quick, you must ask exactly what you mean, no more, no less. or you will not enjoy the outcome as much as you would have imagined.
This song is so haunting....beautiful :)
This song breaks my heart EVER. SINGLE. TIME. I keep saying this is the last time because it makes me cry, but heather Dale is so talented i keep going back for more..
careful what you wish for, you just might get it
pretty much sums up most Celtic stories involving the fae folk, everyone story where someone meets one gets fucked over somehow haha
I've been obsessed with the series "Outlander" lately. I'm now obsessed with the mythology that came with it in some of the early episodes. Changeling children and fairies.. Love it
this song never fails to give me chills
Heather Dale's music is absolutely amazing!
At least she doesn't have to pay for college.
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moral of the story: be careful what you ask for because sometimes there is a price to pay when what you have is not good enough for you. Karma is a bitch and you may get what you want but not necessarily the way you bargained for it.
She got a child that never grew up. But she got to be a mother and a mother till the end of her natural days on earth. That is a blessing. Considering she wasn't able to become a mother naturally.
FIGHT THE FAERIES SAM, FIGHT THE FAERIES!!!
whenever I listen to this song I remember the tale of Clodagh in Juliette Marillier's Heir to Sevenwaters. one of the best told tales I've read, highly recommended
I have been trying for awhile to conceive and I cant get pregnant. This made me cry. Unfortunately my husband refuses adoption. I have been depressed a lot. Everytime I see a baby I feel useless. I do crave to hold a little one and sing to them.
twillightrose13 Have things got better with you?
Divorce him and adopt.
@@stasiaspade1169 yeah because orphanages looooove to give kids to single mothers smfh
I never expected to have children. Then one day I knew my daughter was coming no matter what, I knew she was a she immediately. I love her fiercely, she is a little over 2 and still can't form words and she is on a massive waiting list and it is breaking my heart. I will whisper a prayer to Lilith, I hope you get exactly what you want, sweetheart. Being a mother changes your view on love forever.
twillightrose13 is he open to using a surrogate?
This breaks my heart every time I hear it. 💔😭
Moral of the story, guys:
Don't mess with the fey. They will **** up your life.
Or, if you're lucky, just eat you.
Ak! Edit: that eating-you part is not taken from the song but is still a good lesson.
I have a character in one of my stories who's the very first vampire. He was found as a toddler by a human family, and they took him in. He does age, but very slowly, so this song could fit him - except that his adoptive family also had biological children, so he ended up being passed down the generations, until he finally gets old enough that he can turn someone else and not be alone anymore.
Sad but AMAZING!! I love the Celtic culture and the stories of Faeries. It's always so tragic but i mean, seriously, its a Faerie. It happens. Expect it.
I could see this as a TV show--a fairy who wants to be a lawyer, so she goes to fair folk law school, then has to go to mortal law school to see how our laws differ, then she finally goes home to practice all that she's learned. As dry as I find most legal-based shows, I'd watch that. :)
Remember when dealing with fairies to outline the bargain your asking for. The Fae have ever been tricky folk and will ever be so.
remember: don't make deals with the Fae, they are smarter and crueler and far older than you will ever be, they will find a way to turn it back against you
I loooove Heather Dale like holy shit her voice gives me goosebumps everytime
I'm guessing that the child aged slowly like those of their kind.
This song is so sad. ):
She did ask for a baby, not a child that would grow. Any creature would've given her a baby that would stay a baby forever instead of a growing child, not just fairies.
Also, may I ask why people are saying faeries instead of fairies? Is just a different spelling, nothing more?
It comes from the French word : "fae" which means false
www.etymonline.com/ this site is amazing at the meanings of words - with latin root words, and PIE
I believe (I don’t have facts, so take this with a grain of salt) that faeries is the traditional way of spelling it; fairies is the more modern version
Thank you for sharing, TheaterRaven, from H/P Raven W. Navarre-Mayo, RavenWolf Covenstead, Camp Verde, Az. US
I have to agree with you there. Though I haven't had the pleasure yet to listen to any of her other works, these two, so far, are my favorite ones by her.
What if the baby was just a normal faerie kid and he just aged differently than human kids? That's my headcanon
According to their mythology, fairies are either immortal, or time passes much differently in their realm. You could step inside for what seems like all of 5 seconds, and when you leave, 100 years have gone by in the human world. It's best not to try rationalizing how the fair folk regard the passing of ages.
UMG!!!! This was best song i've heard in years!!!!
Love this song! Heather Dale is an angel! ;D
Heather you are amazing love your voice!!
Very haunting, well done:::))) Cheer's from Australia
Dick move fairies. Dick move.
Pete of the Bread to be fair she asked for a baby.
The fey are dicks. They'll always give you what you ask for, bu never what you want.
And it would make it harder for a fairy lawyer to blend in with humans.
"Aren't you going to kill this man?"
"Why would we do that? He hasn't gone on trial yet."
". . . Right. (Into a tape recorder) It appears the humans are very stickler when it comes to this 'fair trial' business."
In all seriousness, though, I think a show/film about the workings of the fairy world (and not as how Disney sees it) would be fascinating. Actually, I think the story this song tells would make a great movie. :)
this made me tear up, amazing
beautiful, sad, magical
I always loved faerie myths and this song made me remember a medical condition where the child only ages 1 year for every 4. There's a 31 year old woman in Brazil who still looks like a toddler, i just think it's cool how science can actually confirm myths.
Sad and beautiful!
This is such a beautiful story *__*
And a very beautiful song
What a beautiful song ,
real good song i love it
Such a depressing song. I am not too familiar with changelings; can they be driven away or killed, and without bringing the wrath of the fairies/elves upon you? If so, I imagine she'd have been better off killing the changeling once she realised he would never age. If the fair folk had confronted her about it, perhaps point out that she'd only asked them to give her a baby. She didn't state what she intended to do with it.
Exact Words; two can play at that.
women use to put "changelings " in the woods to die or for the Fay folk to bring back the human child that was taken.
Mia Cooj The woman in this video should have done that then. Instead she'll be rocking that cradle until the day she dies.
Except the woman in the song made a bargain with the Fae folk. Usually changlings are Fae children swapped for the real, human baby. the parents would leave them in the woods in hope that the Fae would switch them back. The woman in the song had no real baby to begin with.
***** a mother's love is timeless. For my son I would walk through fire. I would have rocked that babe until the day I died
RachelisTheWendyBird changelings can also be fae elderly who need someone to take care of them
Great Video
Love it!
Admittedly fairyland is like Neverland where time doesn’t pass, so it is perfectly reasonable for fairies to consider that to be the “default”. From their perspective, aging is unusual and must be specified.
Moral of the story, Careful what you ask for, because you just might get it. but then don't go around blaming others for your actions, wants and desires.
Faith Within My memory might be rusty, but doesn't the story go like, Peter was a bird who heard a married couple yearning for a child and wished to make them happy and they seemed nice people so he asked to be turned into a baby, and when he heard the parents talk about the time he'll be grown up, he realised kids don't STAY kids and he went back to the birds even though he couldn't turn back into a bird so he learnt to play the pan flute which is where the Pan part of his name is from and wished to never grow up?
Gotta love that piano.
Man, 50 years... after being married for 12... both she and her husband were dead in the end, and her spirit still cared for the baby.
This song is so depressing :( A woman wants to be a mother so badly and the fae didn't understand what she meant by that, they didn't even answer her questions when she came back to ask them why her child never aged.
CraftyMaelyss I don't think it was so much the fae didn't understand. I think it understood perfectly. The woman, as TheaterRaven (I believe it was) mentioned, wanted a "baby," not a son or a daughter. The fae are apparently incredibly literal, so the woman was given a baby who would remain a baby forever. As for why they refused to answer her afterwards, I think that's just kind of what they do. They give people their hearts' desires, but with such a catch that it makes the person wish they had never asked.
Jay James That's what I meant but regardless it's still heartbreaking :(
BanPhotoRadar kinda harsh, don't you think?
this song always makes me cry
With is so heartwarming.
I didn't really understand the moral of the song... But I still find it interesting, plus I love the melodic, melancholic, and mysterious line.
I'm not sure it has a "moral" as such...?
The moral is: Be careful what you ask for from a fairy, at best they're going to give you exactly what you asked for and no more. Though often asking for something from a fairy is likely to end badly for the person asking.
try reading Tithe by Holly Black. It's about a changeling and is very interesting. That book suggests fae would exchange the human child for pieces of driftwood or other inanimate objects, and exchanging one of their own was rather rare as they had too few young to exchange them. It makes sense, as only the truly insane would exchange an immortal child for a mortal, fragile being unless to protect the fae child from unfriendly forces?
so awesome and so sad
This song makes me so sad but I love it. I’ve always wondered though were there people who took over the child and now people deemed “worthy” of the secret watch overthe changling child until they die as well
Have always love the song and loved the story
A mother's love is evermpre
such a beautiful song. I have a child with a condition that has stolen his childhood and will not allow him to see adulthood. hes 15 and our life feels like this song.
to be traded by the fair folk, i'll never belong in this place, I only hope my brother has found his place.
Still love this song
this song i love so much yet such a sad story behind
daughter of a changeling child, come hither sing the night song wild, lets go yond the standing stones, into the garden yonder, i never said it was safe, hush child, dont wander... fear not the song of pack yea, the lone wolves howl is stronger, safe for now you are, although the pack will last much longer, you shall not fear the howls of pack, although i pass, my master is much stronger...i am here for a single task...although i tarry just a bit longer
Whenever i listen to this, i cry.
There is a true story of an Irish man in the 19th century who ended up murdering his good and loving wife because he was allegedly so convinced that she was a changeling -and not the same woman he had married. What really seemed to be at play in that story is that he was not doing as well as hoped in providing for his family, and his wife had become their primary bread winner. And this insulted his manhood so deeply, that he could not live with the situation. So tragic that he couldn't just thank God that he had landed such a talented, industrious wife, and swallowed his pride a bit for the sake of both their happiness.
Do you have a web link to this story?