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Title	Childbirth superstition, Vigo County, Indiana
Genre	Folk belief
Description	Kelly Bridgewater's transcribed interview of Von Bridgewater's personal account of lifting her arms over her head as a possible cause of why the umbilical cord wrapped around her baby's neck in Vigo County, Indiana.
Informant	Bridgewater, Von
Collector	Bridgewater, Kelly
Date of Original	2008-02-16
Contextual Information	Fife, Austin E. "Birthmarks and Psychic Imprinting of Babies in Utah Folk Medicine." American Folk Medicine. A Symposium. Ed Wayland D. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Repository	Indiana State University Folklore Archives, Special Collections, Cunningham Memorial Library, Terre Haute, Indiana 47809
Coverage	United States -- Indiana -- Vigo County -- 2008
Subject	Pregnancy Superstitions Childbirth
WV3 Subject	Folklore
Type	text
Material Type	Interviews
Date Digital	2011-10-18
Technical Metadata	image/tiff 300 dpi; Epson GT-20000; Epson Scan
Copyright	Digital image copyright c 2011 Indiana Folklore Collection.
Item ID	isuf-Pregnancy Childbirth020

Childbirth superstition, Vigo County, Indiana

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