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childbed
2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.
Africa & the Middle East · 2
ĀlThe āl (Armenian ալ, Persian آل) is a being of childbed across Iran, Armenia, and the Caucasus, often said to personify puerperal fever. Traditions disagree on shape; they agree that a new mother must not be left unguarded, and that iron and prayer belong at the threshold.AlbastiAlbasty (Albastı, Albasly, Albarsty and many local forms) is a female being known across Turkic Central Asia, the Volga, the Caucasus, and Anatolia. On the steppe she is foremost a childbed demon; in some regions a disease-presser or, in older layers, a guardian of birth later recast as harmful.
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