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This chapter considers beliefs related to the birth of a child and the periods of time immediately before and after it, that is, during a period that runs from the pregnancy to the time before or just after the baptism. Apart from the well-known cravings, there were a good number of ways to guess the sex of the foetus at a time when they did not have the technical means to do so.

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