Denmark, 1860: During childbirth read:

"Jomfru Maria, laan mig noeglerne dine.
at jeg maa aabne Laenderne mine!" (Eng: "Virgin Mary, Lend me your keys. That I may open my limbs!")

Sweden, Vaestergotland, 1722:

Put your hand on the child giving womans head and read the following three times:

"Jungfru Maria, millda moder,
laena mig nycklar dina,
maedan jag laeser upp lemmar,
och ledamotter mina!
I namn: Faders, Sons och den Helige Andes."

(Eng: "Virgin Mary, kind mother, lend me your keys, while I read open my limbs and loins! In name: Father, Son and the Holy Ghost.") Then read "Our Father" once.

From the Swedish speaking part of Finland, 19:th century:
[Translated from Swedish to English]

"To ease the pains at childbirth the woman should put the mans pants on the cover of her bed."

"...open three locks and put the keys in the bed of the child givin woman."
"...take the skin of the first snake that has been killed in spring and put it on the navle of the child giving woman."
"...snakeskin that the snake has given itself [by shedding] is put in a cloth and tied to the womans left leg."
"...snake fat is anointed on the navle of the child giving woman."
"...a knife, with wich a snakes head has been cut of, is brought around the groin of the woman three times."
"...the father of the child to be is beaten with the womans clothes. He then gets all the pain instead of her."
"...the child giving woman hits her man with a stick. He then gets the pains intead of her.
"...the last three months of the pregnancy, the woman eats three raisins in the morning before anything else.

"To protect the child giving woman from evil a pair of scissors or a knife should be placed under the bed.
"...fire steel is placed in the bed."

"If the uterus will not go back to its place after giving birth, the woman shoud put Nettle (Urtica Dioica) in her shoes."

"To protect the woman from diseases after child birth she should wear a folding knife in her pocket."

Iceland, 19:th century:

The galdrastaff seen on top of this page should be written on sanctified paper and put under the brest of a
child bearing woman to protect her against unclean spirits and help her with the birth.

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