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* ''In The Lives Of Puppets'': Vic is the only human in a world populated by robots, having been found and raised by his robot father, Giovanni, for the last twenty-one years.

* In ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, Bod Owens is a human boy raised by ghosts, a werewolf, and a (very noble) vampire. They give him an amusing education, including copperplate handwriting, ghostly abilities, and first-hand history lessons. They tried to send him to human school for a short time, but that didn't end well.

* ''In The Lives Of Puppets'': Vic is the only human in a world populated by robots, having been found and raised by his robot father, Gio, for the last twenty years.

* ''Literature/InTheLivesOfPuppets'': Vic is the only human in a world populated by robots, having been found and raised by his robot father, Gio, for the last twenty years.

* In the original ''Literature/PeterPan'' novels/plays by J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan was left by his birth parents in Kensington Gardens when he was a week old, where he was taken in by the birds and fairies there. They are the ones who taught him how to fly, and likely led him to Neverland.

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Finally-Home-Ch-1-pt-2-814319937 chapter 1 part 2]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Finally Home'', we learn that sorceress Kyogoku Maria has kept UsefulNotes/DateMasamune and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Sanada]] [[MisterSeahorse Yukimura]]'s grandson Tsukitora (mothered by their son Masa (at [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother the age of thirteen]], no less) and fathered by the late Oyamada Nobushige) for six years, until his seventh birthday.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown,'' the title character was a DoorstopBaby raised by a family of [[ChristmasElves toy-making elves]] named the Kringles. As an adult, he's about twice their height. They named his Kris, while "Claus" was apparently his birth name, left on his OrphansPlotTrinket.

* In ''Literature/TheGraveyardBook'' by Creator/NeilGaiman, Bod Owens is a human boy raised by ghosts, a werewolf, and a (very noble) vampire. They give him an amusing education, including copperplate handwriting, ghostly abilities, and first-hand history lessons.

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* Downplayed in ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon''. [[spoiler:The protagonist, Bell Cranel,]] was raised by the god Zeus, who treated him as his adoptive grandson. Aside from growing up among fairy tales of heroes saving princesses and getting some [[HaremSeeker suspect motivations to become an adventurer]], he's culturally the same as any other human his age.

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** Ysabell is adopted by [[TheGrimReaper Death]] after being orphaned as a child.

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* Mana from ''Manga/MermaidSaga'', was raised by [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaids]].

* [[http://elfquest.com/read/index.php?s=HY/HY03 Little Patch]] from ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' is a human raised by elves.

* Will Ferrel plays Buddy the Elf in ''Film/{{Elf}}'', a human who accidentally crawled into SantaClaus' toy sack and ended up in the North Pole. One of the friendly elves takes in the baby to raise him.

* SantaClaus in Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'' was a human baby found and raised by immortals of the magical Forest of Burzee.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Aragorn, a human coming from a royal bloodline with elf ancestry, was raised in Rivendell by the elf-lord Elrond (his great-uncle, about 32 generations removed), after his father was slain by orcs when he was two years old.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Aragorn, a human coming from a royal bloodline with elf ancestry, was raised in Rivendell by the elf-lord Elrond, after his father was slain by orcs when he was two years old.

* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon/art/Finally-Home-Ch-1-pt-2-814319937 chapter 1 part 2]] of [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SilfofinaDragon]]'s ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' fanfic ''Finally Home'', we learn that witch Kyogoku Maria has kept UsefulNotes/DateMasamune and [[UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura Sanada]] [[MisterSeahorse Yukimura]]'s grandson Tsukitora (mothered by their son Masa (at [[AbsurdlyYouthfulMother the age of thirteen]], no less) and fathered by the late Oyamada Nobushige) for six years, until his seventh birthday.

* In ''LightNovel/TheFarawayPaladin'', Will was found and raised by Blood, Mary, and Gus, who are a skeleton, a wight, and a ghost respectively, after his parents were killed when their carriage crashed.

* In some versions of the Myth/KingArthur myth, Percival was found and taken in by a witch coven, who taught him to master different forms of weaponry. Subverted, however, when he eventually learns that they were responsible for the death of his cousin, and comes back to kill them.
** In most versions, Lancelot and his cousins, Lionel and Bors the Younger, were all raised by TheLadyOfTheLake in her underwater palace.

-->-- '''Dominic De Luca''', ''[[Literature/InCryptid Swamp Bromeliad]]''

** ''Literature/IShallWearMidnight'' has a situation where a teenage girl, who gets pregnant outside wedlock, is beaten up so badly by her drunken father that she loses the baby. Witch Tiffany Aching, who arbitrates the situation and ensures the right sort of justice is meted out to the father, places Amber Petty in the care of the NacMacFeegle. The nearest thing the Chalk has to fairy folk look after her kindly and help Amber out of a catatonic trance. Returning to check on her welfare, Tiffany discovers Amber has effectively been "reborn" as a result of her time with the Feegle; the clan leader, the Kelda and mother of her people, advises Tiffany that things are awakening in Amber that she never thought possible in a human. Amber is now developing an awareness and ability in the "hidden things" as a result of her near-death and symbolic rebirth. It is significant that the Feegle are later accused of taking away the real Amber and replacing her with a fairy changeling.

->''"Verity, I am aware that you have had an even more idiosyncratic upbringing than I did, and that for you, this sort of thing is perfectly normal, even mundane. Please let me be the first to inform you that bringing one's boyfriend to the family murder house to be lectured by one of an assortment of dead aunts is distinctly abnormal."''

->''"Verity, I am aware that you have had an even more idiosyncratic upbringing than I did, and that for you, this sort of thing is perfectly normal, even mundane. Please let me be the first to inform you that bringing one's boyfriend to the family murder house to be lectured by one of an assortment of dead aunts is distinctly'' abnormal."

Compare ChangelingFantasy, where a character is raised by someone not their biological family without their knowledge and ChangelingTale, where an unsuspecting family's child is swapped with a fairy. Other variations are RaisedByWolves, where the human is raised by benevolent wildlife, RaisedByNatives, where someone is raised by people of a distinctly foreign culture, and RaisedByOrcs, when someone is raised by an evil species or culture. See MuggleFosterParents for an inversion of this trope.