Come child in good health!
God, God calls thee!”
If a woman dies in child-bed two eggs are placed under her arms and the following couplet is muttered:—
“Kana anro kirnes hin,
Kathe nañi tçudá hin!”
“When this egg is (shall be) decayed,
Here (will be) is no milk!”
When the after-pains begin it is the custom with some of the gypsy tribes in the Siebenburgen to smoke the sufferer with decayed willow-wood which is burned for the purpose while the women in attendance sing:—
“Sik te sik o tçu urál,
Te urál o čon urál!