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Pregnancy Piseogs

TargetWidow · 2010-03-11 22:50:38

I was recently warned off going into a graveyard because I am pregnant. What other pregnancy piseogs have you heard of.... Piseogs specifically if possible as I am fascinated by them, many of the the old wives tales such as "don't reach over your head" might seem appropriate but would really be more easily ascribed to an…

11-03-2010 11:50pm

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I was recently warned off going into a graveyard because I am pregnant.
What other pregnancy piseogs have you heard of....
Piseogs specifically if possible as I am fascinated by them, many of the the old wives tales such as "don't reach over your head" might seem appropriate but would really be more easily ascribed to an old wives tale that the baby's cord might get tangled around the neck if you reach up thus having a physiological cause (Which it doesn't and it is rubbish).

What I find interesting in this piseog I was warned about is the idea of the dead possibly interfering with the living. Or maybe it is dangerous in case you fall over uneven ground. There is another piseog that says it is bad luck to fall in a graveyard if you are pregnant.

So chat to your grannies and dig out any proper piseogs you can find. My own nana used to say that using her spit to clean the face of a newborn baby was good luck for the child. (Certainly not socially for me it wasn't, going around smelling of nana-spit!)

I am after the ones based in superstition and magic.

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