Zurgada Antonova, How to Make Ewes Accept Their Newborn
Authors
Churyumova, Elvira
Seleeva, Tsagan
Editors
Churyumova, Elvira
Publication Date
2015-04-29Language
xal
Type
Video
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Churyumova, E., & Seleeva, T. (2015). Zurgada Antonova, How to Make Ewes Accept Their Newborn [Video file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.18309
Abstract
Sometimes ewes reject their new-born. Zurgada’s paternal uncle had the following method to make such ewes accept their lambs. He used to take saliva from the lamb and hand it over to its mother while saying the following: ‘Pog-pog, why are you rejecting your offspring? How will you walk in the spring wind? It is your lamb. Even birds that do not have udders feed their chicks’. After this, the ewe would accept its lamb.
Keywords
sheep, ewes, rejection, ritual
Sponsorship
Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.18309