Fairies also feature in many tales. They are usually sweet, kindly creatures. In the middle ages, however, people believed that fairies stole children and replaced them fairy beings known as changelings. Vampires are the undead who drink the blood of the living to survive. The werewolf is bloodthirsty and ruthless. It devours its prey and shows none of the remorse that it might have felt in human form. They usually appear as men by day, but may return into wolves on the night of a full moon. Trolls are grotesque, malicious, rather dim – witted creatures in Scandinavian folklore. They are said to steal sleeping children, sometimes replacing them with one of their own. Trolls have poor eyesight, and are active only at night because sunlight turns them to stone.
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