Besides these tales, Kraus quotes several Serbian popular beliefs of a similar nature. If a woman sleeps naked in the moonlight in a garden, forest or field, she will become pregnant. Children conceived in this manner possess the gift of second sight. Sometimes it is said that their father is a vampire.
According to one tradition, a young girl can become pregnant by passing at noontide through a field of corn in the ear with the sun upon it.[1]
This belief in parthenogenesis has given rise to various abuses, and of this we find frequent traces in Serbian popular traditions.
- ↑ F. S. Kraus, Anthropophyteia, i. p. 51.
pripovietkama u Strohalovu Zborniku II.”) in the Zbornik za narodni život i običaje Južnih Slavena (Collection of the National Life and Customs of the Southern Slavs), book viii. vol. 2, p. 165.
