Pregnancy and childbirth remains a mystical and magical time, characterised by feelings of hope, uncertainty and worry. This book aims to gather together the beliefs and customs, explaining how and why they arose, in which parts of the country they have been particularly popular, and to what extent they survive.

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Title: Monday's Child is Fair of Face
Publisher: Cornerstone
Publication Date: 2008
Language: English
ISBN 10: 190521152X
ISBN 13: 9781905211524
Binding: Hardback
Condition: Fair

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A fascinating guide to the superstitions and traditional customs surrounding babies, from the old belief that you should not wash babies’ hands, to the view that the day on which baby is born determines its personality and fortune in life. The perfect book for new parents, it explains the origin of these superstitions and to what extent they still survive.

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Steve Roud is Local Studies Librarian for the London Borough of Croydon. He is the coauthor of the Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore, plus other books on traditional drama and folk song, and the Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland, which won the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award in 2004.

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