child-stealing

The way I keep watching this show really baffles me*, because I have given up on way smarter shows for being way less consistently and obviously fail - Criminal Minds pretty much lost me with an episode on child-stealing gypsies, in a show otherwise relatively good on diversity and feminism.

My growing feminism will cut you in half like a righteous blade of equality. karenhealey 2010

Hiss has been involved in scandals since the 1950s, at which time he was implicated in an alleged child-stealing scheme. posted by Dr. Dawg at 11: 43 AM

Archive 2009-12-01 2009

Hiss has been involved in scandals since the 1950s, at which time he was implicated in an alleged child-stealing scheme. posted by Dr. Dawg at 11: 43 AM

Truth is a defence 2009

This was the winter quarters of the travelers, the Summer Walkers, as they called themselves; the tinkers, tinks as the townsfolk called them when they wanted to perpetuate the myth of a child-stealing, curse-laying, thieving, outcast, scourge-of-Scotland race of outsiders.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

Elvenbrood by Tanith Lee is also about faeries and child-stealing; and also set in modern times; and tells the story from the family's POV.

The Faery Reel 2006

Mayfield gave the local police the story Faith had come up with: an interstate child-stealing ring.

The Mesa Conspiracy David Kent 2005

Finally, Cole functions as the Erl-Konig, the child-stealing Faerie reiver.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

By the Malays they are called indiscriminately Kafirs or infidels, and are interesting to them only in so far as they can use them for bearing burdens, clearing jungle, procuring gutta, and in child-stealing, an abominable Malay custom, which, it is hoped, has received its death-blow in Perak at least.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Sad and tired and a little bit angry even though he knew that not all women were unreliable child-stealing chimps.

Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998

There's a rumor the Living are behind the child-stealing.

The Tower of Fear Cook, Glen 1989