The couvade is a practical survival from the days of women's rule. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul] Reference
I allude to the singular custom of the "couvade," in which the father is put to bed on the birth of a child. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
When it happens to humans, it's called 'couvade syndrome' as if it was some sort of illness. From Wordnik.com. [Why Expectant Dads Gain Weight Too] Reference
The couvade prevails or has prevailed very widely. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul] Reference
For a fuller account of the couvade I must refer my readers to. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
On the other side of the Atlantic the couvade has been noticed in. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
They had most of the customs of the Guaycuru, including the couvade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The fathers stand about in manly attitudes, concealing all signs of couvade. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
The couvade is developed to the highest degree in South America and the West Indies. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
Tyler, E.B. on the couvade. his "Early History of Mankind". on whirlwinds in Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
The syndrome is relatively common and epidemological studies report couvade symptoms in. From Wordnik.com. [Mental Nurse] Reference
Polygamy exists, as also, according to some travellers, the curious custom of the couvade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
In Europe the couvade may be traced up from ancient into modern times in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
The way in which the couvade appears in the new and old worlds is especially interesting from this point of view. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
The woman receives little attention in pregnancy or childbirth, but on the other hand the father conforms to the couvade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Here we find, covering a vast compact area of country, the mental stratum, so to speak, to which the couvade most nearly belongs. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
This authority also mentions that the French call husbands who have well-developed mammae "la couvade;" the Germans call male supernumerary breasts. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
Herein, according to the authors of the present work, is to be found the true explanation of the couvade, of the putting of the father to bed when his. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul] Reference
The practice of the couvade was universal, in some form or other, amongst the Carib races, but was unknown amongst the peoples whom I have called the Nahuatls. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
This authority also mentions that the French call husbands who have well-developed mammæ ` ` la couvade; '' the Germans call male supernumerary breasts ` ` bauchwärze, '' or ventral nipples. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
In connexion with childbirth most of the tribes practised the couvade, the father keeping his bed for some days, subjected to rigid diet and other taboos, until released by a ceremonial exorcism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference
"Another Asiatic people, recorded to have practised the couvade, are the Tibareni of Pontus, at the south of the Black Sea, among whom, when the child was born, the father lay groaning in bed with his head tied up, while the mother tended him with food and prepared his baths.". From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
If the culture of the Caribs and Brazilians, even before they came under our knowledge, had advanced too far to allow the couvade to grow up fresh among them, they at least practised it with some consciousness of its meaning; it had not fallen out of unison with their mental state. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
In one study of couvade, derived from the French ‘to incubate or hatch,' 47% of the 81 expectant fathers in the study experienced significant weight gain during their partner's pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Why Expectant Dads Gain Weight Too] Reference
Perhaps it was creative couvade syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Last Words] Reference
Of what stock were the original barbarian inhabitants of Corsica we do not know; but their position, and the fact that they, too, had the couvade, would suggest their having been a branch of the same family who escaped their persecutors by putting out to sea and settling in their mountainous island. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
Carib couvade in the West Indies. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
He just had the couvade syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Now What, Cat?] Reference
Parental care, 184; The couvade, 185. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Among their peculiar customs is the couvade. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
'faire la couvade.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference
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