Childbirth Traditions and Customs of the Kazakh People

Bakyt ABZHET, Zhumashova Zhuldyz Amanbaevna

2016

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DOI 10.1080/10611959.2016.1307018
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Abstract

This article describes beliefs, rites, customs, and traditions of the Kazakh people concerning childbirth. The significance of prophetic dreams associated with childbirth, pilgrimages to holy places to receive beneficent signs, ceremonial placing of the infant in the cradle [besik], and cutting of “constraints” at a child’s first steps is examined. These folk traditions are manifest widely in Kazakh epics. In addition, genesis of ancient beliefs that have been preserved in Kazakh myths and tales is discussed.