The Changeling
The monster I have chosen to analyze is Changeling, the demon from Supernatural season three episode two. This takes place in Cicero, Indiana. This demon takes children and shape shift into them and lock them away somewhere. Since this demon is a shape shifter, in this particular episode it appears as children and the mother over them takes over the body of a woman and lock her away as well. The real demon was only seen through mirror or class by the adults. The demon was dark holes where the eyes should be with a circular mouth full of four rows of sharp teeth and the child‘s skin is slimy and dead looking. For this episode, the producer created this demon so that it would have some relationship with a girl that Dean knows. In my opinion the author did this to try to distract Dean from his job, but turns out seeing her again ties into his job later on in the show. In this episode this demon goes around killing children’s fathers and then duplicating the children’s bodies. The demon did this so it could attach to the mother and feed off of her without her knowing, slowly driving her crazy. When the mother Changeling is killed, which is done with fire, her children automatically vanish as well. The Changelings move from neighborhood to neighborhood feeding off children and their mothers. This demon will stop and kill anyone who gets in their way of their food source. The mother hides herself as an adult woman, while she let her children do her work so the humans wont get too suspicious.
