Look what I found in today's paper. Can you believe it? They think twins are bad luck! (Remember to click on the pic to enlarge it an be able to read the article.)
When I was pregnant with The Boys I received a huge gift for the twins from a Chinese client. Apparently twins are good luck in China and a big gift is totally appropriate. Do you know of any other cultural believes regarding twins?
Edited to add: My hubby tells me that in the San (bushman) culture in the Kalahari desert the weaker one of twins was left to die in the dunes as the moms did not have enough milk to support two babies.
No, I don't but that article is CRAZY!!! Can you even imagine? There are so many twins around here that I am not sure that it's even a novelty anymore, good or bad. But I have NEVER heard of a culture that believes that they are bad luck to that degree, I am sure there are more out there though!!!
ReplyDeletethat is just crazy. I think that multiple babies are lucky and 2 or 3 times the blessings.
ReplyDeleteI don't...but I've never heard of anything like that. can you imagine being told you can't keep your babies? another reason why I'm glad I'm an american!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I didn't know that they could be bad luck. I knew that they were good luck for the Chinese culture but never knew they could be bad luck... Learn something new everyday.
ReplyDeleteOooof! I cannot even imagine!
ReplyDeleteyikes!!!
ReplyDeletewow! Glad we're not in Madagascar! I Love having twins! Its such a blessing!
ReplyDeleteHOLY cow! I can't believe it's looked at as bad luck. WOW!
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