Antall József szerk.: Népi gyógyítás Magyarországon / Orvostörténeti Közlemények – Supplementum 11-12. (Budapest, 1979)

TANULMÁNYOK - Hoppáy Mihály: „Anya és gyermek" a magyar folklórban — A hiedelemvilág etnoszemiotikai megközelítése (angol nyelven)

-96 Comm. Hist. Artis Med. Suppl. 11- 12 (1979) 18. They pour the bath water of the child in an out-of-the-way place, because if somebody steps into it the child won't be able to sleep. 19. Before he is baptised, the child belongs to the devil. 20. If the newborn dies before he is baptised, he will be damned. 21. A child who dies unbaptised and without baptismal robe will come back for seven years and cry, asking for baptism and a baptismal robe. 22. An unbaptised child always cries in his grave. 23. If they hear a crying voice during the night, they throw a scarf or a bodice into the yard so that the unbaptised child should calm down. 24. It is thought that the unbaptised child cries because he hasn't got a name, so they give him one, usually the name of a relative. He cries for his name every seven years, and on these occasions they shout a name to him. 25. If the unbaptised child is taken to the churchyard by a godparent, then they burry him without ringing the bell, in a small coffin, at the feet of a relative. 26. If the father takes the child to the churchyard, he burries him at the side of the churchyard. 27. The newborn is taken to be baptised when he is one week old. 28. If it is necessary it is allowed by the church that the midwives baptise the baby so that he should not die without baptism. 29. Before the baptism the child was never taken out of the house. 30. When they returned from baptism, they entered the house saying: "We took a pagan, brought back a Christian." 31. The godmothers took food twice daily to the mother in confinement. The godmother brought breakfast and tea every day for two weeks. 32. To stop the witches from swopping the baby, they didn't turn the light off. 33. Lest the changeling should be substituted for the baby the mother never turns away from her child. 34. After the child was born a knife or a comb was put under his head until baptism, lest he would be swopped for a changeling. 35. To stop the baby from being subsituted for a changeling they put a rosary or a prayer book at his head. 36. To prevent substitution of the baby they put a branch from a birch next to him for three days. 37. Lest the baby should be swopped, they put the mother's dress turned inside out next to him and they put on his bodice inside out. 38. Lest a changeling should be substituted for the baby, the mother does not leave the house, does not even step outside the gate, till baptism she wears her hair loose, does not make it into a bun. 39. To prevent substitution of the baby for a changeling, they put garlic and rosary under his pillow. 40. Lest the baby should be swopped, you have to put thyme next to him. 41. To prevent substitution of the baby for a changeling, they stand a birch-broom upsidedown. 42. To prevent substitution of the newborn, they tied a red ribbon round his neck and wrists. 43. I heard it from my mother, that a woman's baby had a very large head. She went to the quack-doctor and she told her to make a fire in the oven, and when it is burning well, to put the child on the peel and pretend to cast it into the oven. And then the person who changed the child comes in and says: "Is it you who wants to throw my child in the fire? I keep yours wrapped in silk." Then they changed them back. 44. A child born with a caul will be clever, lucky and wealthy. 45. If a child is born with a caul, the caul is kept and when he grows up he wears it on his neck to protect him against bullets.