wichtel

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Hessian tale mentioned by Grimm, a _wichtel-wife_ caught almost in the act of kidnapping refused to give up the babe until the woman had placed the changed one to her breast, and "nourished it for once with the generous milk of human kind."

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887
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