Midwives had a special sort of second sight that permitted them to discover when #fairies were stealing human children. A midwife traveling to a late-night birth might encounter such fairies intent on kidnapping. Arriving at the home of the laboring mother, she would discover that the child was dead, stolen by those she had encountered. Legend tells of midwives who traveled to the #Otherworld to steal back such infants.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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M is for "Midwife" in this week's #ArchiveZ This is Annie Ramsay, the grandmother of Linda, our head of Conservation, in 1943. Annie was a Midwife and District Nurse. Find out more about the history of midwifery in Scotland from our archives here... http://ow.ly/kGpT30r3cla

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Join us for an A to Z tour of East Dunbartonshire Archives starting with A for architect’s drawings. This beautiful drawing is from Scotland’s first garden suburb at Westerton in 1913. #ExploreYourArchive #ArchiveZ #architecture @ARAScot