Coraline: The Other Mother's Weird Origins

What is a Beldam? The word has been around a long time, and has an interesting origin story itself! How do the Other Mother's button eyes, affinity for bugs, and an overwhelming need to consume the souls of children fit in with other traits common among Beldams, and which traits track back furthest? How are Button eyes, and Wild eyes, and one poisonous beauty potion tied together?

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References:
Romanian Folklore: July 2010, comenius-legends.blogspot.com/2010/07/valva.html
“Coraline” by Neil Gaiman, 2002
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats, 1819

Images:
John William Waterhouse – La belle dame sans merci, 1893
La Belle Dame sans Merci by Henry Meynell Rheam, 1901
Arthur Hughes – La belle dame sans merci
Frank Dicksee – La belle dame sans merci, c. 1901
John Keats - by William Hilton, after Joseph Severn, based on a work of c.1822

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