Fantasy Tropes

noun a sign of what will happen in the future; an omen or prediction

• The priest performed an augury to predict the outcome of the harvest.
• Some people still believe in reading tea leaves as a form of augury.
• I don't put much stock in that crystal ball augury stuff.
• The dark clouds gathering overhead were an augury of the impending storm.

noun a child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents' real child in infancy

• The folklore of a changeling is often found in European mythology.
• I heard a story about a changeling who was swapped at birth.
• That kid is like a changeling, always changing their appearance.
• The caterpillar undergoes a transformation, like a changeling turning into a butterfly.