different between swaling vs swapling

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swaling

swaling (plural swalings)

Melted wax that runs down the edge of a candle.
- 1929, Archaeologia Cantiana (volume 41, page 68)
  Metal cups, or basins, were very generally employed in churches for catching the swalings of wax candles, wax being a commodity too valuable to be wasted.

From swap +? -ling.

swapling (plural swaplings)

An infant or child secretly exchanged for another; changeling.
- 1993, Huntington County, Indiana: History & Families, 1834-1993 - Page 330:
  A fire was kept burning in front of this and swaplings were kept inside to "poke away" the wild animals, including bears (as Grandma recalled being told).
- 2011, Christopher Golden, The Monster's Corner:
  The parents of the human girl child would scream when they found the swapling, cry out even louder than they were doing right now, and wail, and call for the queen's guard, and kneel in their churches, […]

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