ANTC61H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Umbilical Cord, Amniotic Sac, Insecticide
Document Summary
This is what she means by saying that she came to see it in less linear terms and thinking a little less like an american and a little more like a hmong (viii). Chapter 1: birth: what is a txiv neeb, shaman. 2 malevolent spirit called a dab) could freely travel to earth: what is a dab, malevolent spirit. Also if women of a childbearing age visited a cave, a particular kind of dab who liked to eat flesh and drink blood could make his victim sterile by having sex with her. If a woman cannot give birth in her own house it is important to give birth in the house of one of her husband"s cousins; anywhere else and a dab might injure her. Dab can steal a baby"s soul (some hmong are careful to never say a baby is pretty aloud incase a dab hears: what is the significance of the placenta in.
