The Changeling at Nickby

Nyland · Finland · Site of legend

Something sat on the fence and waited with a sack - and another child inside it.

In Nickby they tell of a woman skilled in magic who recalled her last childbirth with dread. She saw a dark figure perched on the fence outside, waiting for her to give birth and carrying a sack with a child to swap for her own. With her own arts she managed to thwart the exchange.