People once believed that faeries – or gypsies acting for them –stole infants from their rightful families, leaving in their place changelings from their own half-worlds.  These changelings were strange children, not quite of the earth, who were alien to their parents.

Somewhere in this folk myth is a way of society explaining to itself the Freaks– those who, by physical or mental differentness, were so distinct from their natural parents that only a supernatural explanation was viable.

I, like many who are markedly different from either parent, have some sympathy with these changelings and would like to posit another, although equally supernatural explanation.  I view such individuals: creative, unworldly, given to interests in the occult and arcane aspects of life, as being the children of Leviathan – the progeny of that hidden and dark principle in nature.

How else to explain so many divided homes and bewildered parents,if it is not the concept of the spirit of otherness, ascending from the watery depths and fathering its own children.

Societies everywhere have rasied children from this Changeling Nation, attracted to the shadows rather than the light, delving into the hidden things and nature’s secret ways, rather than accepting the readily presented norms.  Their achievements, where they have not been surpressed, have been formidable.  When you look at names such as Mozart, Byron and Teslar, have not those who have achieved most always been labelled first as among the children of Leviathan?  That is, until there is money to be made from their ideas, upon which they are welcomed into the world of light as its prodigal sons.