Note 37.3 — Chapter XV · THE COUVADE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STRENGTH OF THE BLOOD-TIE—CONCLUSION OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE THEORY OF THE LIFE-TOKEN.

Norman G. Mitchell-Innes, in v. F.L. Journ., 223. Compare the related superstition mentioned ante, vol. i., p. 179. We perhaps find in Tirolese folklore a relic of the same superstition in the belief that children are fetched from a sacred tree. Zingerle, Sitten, 2, 100; Sagen, 110. I have already (ante, vol. i., p. 154, note) referred to the English saying that children come out of the parsley-bed, and (ibid., p. 151, note) to the fancy of mothers in the New Hebrides that a child is connected in origin with a cocoa-nut, bread-fruit, or some such object.