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This document discusses the historical and psychodynamic perspectives on attitudes toward handicapped children in European folklore, specifically the idea of the "changeling". 1) In folklore, if a child was born with deformities or disabilities, parents often believed supernatural beings like fairies had stolen their real child and left a "changeling" in its place, seeking to explain the unexplainable. 2) Changelings were seen as inhuman creatures that looked strange and behaved badly. Harming or frighte

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