A brief note on the "cradlesnatchers"

One creature that stalks the old stories operates thusly: someone who has gone into the wild places and gotten attention from the fae is awoken late at night. Rushing downstairs, they find a monstrous pile of bones, loosely held together by sinew and scattered muscles, standing over their sleeping child. How these stories end differs: sometimes this creature is scared off, or bribed to leave.…