‘The Stolen Child’ and the Changeling Myth
By: Lynn Neary | Sep 1, 2009 | Under:
The inspiration for Keith Donohue’s book The Stolen Child is a W.B. Yeats poem in which fairies try to entice a human child away from a human world “more full of weeping than you can understand.” The changeling myth at the heart of poem and book has ancient roots and echoes in popular culture.