wechsel

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Albrecht (October 31, 1517) admits that he entertained the thought for a long time to preach against indulgence abuses (Enders, "Dr. Martin Luther's Brief wechsel", I, Frankfort, 1884, 115); that Tetzel for several weeks had already been in the district of Brandenburg

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
Die foolish beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg — what you call a fairy-elf changeling.

Peveril of the Peak 1822
Die foolish beoples in the island, they say she is a wechsel-balg -- what you call a fairy-elf changeling.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
My faith, they do not never have seen ein wechsel-balg; for I saw one myself at Cologne, and it was twice as big as yonder girl, and did break the poor people, with eating them up, like de great big cuckoo in the sparrow’s nest; but this Venella eat no more than other girls — it was no wechsel-balg in the world.”

Peveril of the Peak 1822
My faith, they do not never have seen ein wechsel-balg; for I saw one myself at Cologne, and it was twice as big as yonder girl, and did break the poor people, with eating them up, like de great big cuckoo in the sparrow's nest; but this Venella eat no more than other girls -- it was no wechsel-balg in the world. "

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801