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Rh Besides these tales, Kraus quotes several Serbian popular beliefs of a similar nature. If a woman sleeps naked in the moonlight in a garden, forest or field, she will become pregnant. Children conceived in this manner possess the gift of second sight. Sometimes it is said that their father is a vampire.

According to one tradition, a young girl can become pregnant by passing at noontide through a field of corn in the ear with the sun upon it.

This belief in parthenogenesis has given rise to various abuses, and of this we find frequent traces in Serbian popular traditions.

T. R. Georgevtch.