SC - Superstitious Foods....

[Thomas Gloning]

Many articles on food and superstition in:

Handwo:rterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens. Hg. von Hanns
Ba:chtold-Sta:ubli unter Mitwirkung von Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer.
10 vols. Berlin 1927-42. Reprint Berlin/ New York 1987.

Vol. 10, the index volume, has many cross references s.v. "Speise";
s.v. "Geburt" there are references to "Aalleber zur Erleichterung",
"Brotzauber", "Ka:se", "Wolfsfleisch essen", "Wurstessen", "Zwiebel"
etc.; see also s.v. "Geburtserleichterung".

On food, birth etc. see also:

Britta-Juliane Kruse: Verborgene Heilku:nste. Geschichte der
Frauenmedizin im Spa:tmittelalter. Berlin/ New York 1996.
Index s.v. "Erna:hrung".

She mentions among other things a 12th century medical recipe that was
used "als Aphrodisiakum und zur Stärkung einer Frischentbundenen" (p.
210; the recipe published in Sudhoffs Archiv 50, 1966, 207-210).

Thomas

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