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Polish Superstitions and Customs Relating to Pregnancy Prior to 18 –th Century

2018

In Poland, care for pregnant women during the pagan era and after adopting Christianity was primarily based on folk medicine derived from a combinationof mysticism, pagan beliefs, Christian religion and basc empiricism. Most of the phenomena associating pregnancy and childbirth were not intelligible, but some of them could be well justified. Some of the superstitions are followed till the present day, the others for a long time no longer exist.