Strange custom of African tribes: mother and daughter can have a body at the same time

Strange custom of African tribes: mother and daughter can have a body at the same time0

Malibuh, right) holding the child he and his daughter had just given birth to,"You must have never seen a mother and daughter giving birth to a child together. "Every time Old Mrs. Ma talks to me with a smug tone, I know that she must have gotten good information again. "Is there really such a thing? "I can't believe it" It is rumored that Malibuh and her eldest daughter both gave birth to children last week. "she said.

Strange custom of African tribes: mother and daughter can have a body at the same time1

When I arrived at Malibuh's house, I saw two sticks inserted on both sides of the door above the door and on the door of Resaca, implying that there are women giving birth to children in this house, and men and people who have never given birth to children cannot enter for 30 days.) I said to Mrs. Ma: "There are two women giving birth to children in this house, so four sticks should be inserted. And the length of the stick should be different between two generations."

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When I reached Malibuh's house, the door of the house was open. There were several children playing in and out of the door. There were also children running back and forth in the house. Pots, bowls, ladles, basins, broken buckets, rotten brushes, cloth curtains, and placed everywhere, like a messy battlefield.

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"Women just have to raise children. The more the better. Look at my mother, the little sister she has now given birth to is my sixth child. She is very cute. Mom is a few days behind me. Do you think they look alike?" I looked at the two sleeping babies, and their outlines were really similar.

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She said her name was Libua, 18 years old, and the man's name was Mogmero, 22 years old. They have not yet had a wedding. Because in November last year, she discovered that she was pregnant, so she had to hold a simple engagement ceremony at her husband's house. According to local custom, a pregnant woman with a child cannot hold a wedding. She can only wait until the child is three months after the birth.

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Libua told me: My mother is 38 years old this year. Twenty years ago, when she married her father, his family was very poor and only gave him a cow as a betrothal gift. The next year, my father had to go to a mine in South Africa. Over the years, whenever my family heard of a mine collapse, I would be afraid for my father. There were still people who came back with lung disease and died in the end.