2018-03-10
38 分钟Uh Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish a weekly podcast this week coming to you from the bright end My name is Dan Schreiber and I'm sitting here with Anna Chazinski Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin And once again,
we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days And in no particular order,
here we go starting with you Chazinski My fact this week is that until the 17th century mothers hung their babies up on hooks
while they worked You just hung them up like a coat Were they is it yeah,
is it like everyone who works at the same place has a number above their buck If you go to the restaurant,
you just leave your baby in the cloakroom.
Yeah, and if you lose your ticket,
you're absolutely pocket Can you describe it well it is small it's not got much hair This but this is genuinely true So this baby seems to be swaddled for long periods of history It was thought
that it was good for them to be very tightly swaddled,
you know like wrapped up in material So their limbs could grow straight That was the belief and once they were swaddled then they would just be latched on to a hook That was maybe in your house
if you're doing the housework or sometimes mothers would be working out in the fields doing agricultural work And you could hook them onto a tree like a bit of twig That was how they did it Wow And this is is that where I'm like the rocker by baby kind of thing comes from whoo You're not rocking them really or swinging them
if you're doing anything because he's on a tree top,
right?
It is he's in a he's definitely in a vessel lying down comfortably From the tree side Yeah,
keep hold of your ticket or baby will disappear So this used to happen all over the place in Sweden women would carry their children in what was called a bog Just put your baby in the bog baby bog.
What was that?
What was it?
It was a bag Sounds like a typo Yeah,
it's where we get the word back from but it was it was a leather container shaped into a bag Same principle there's there's actually still a thing today in amongst indigenous North Americans Where there's a thing called cradle boards and these have been a thing for hundreds of years And they're sort of flat boards that you strap a baby to and in a very similar way You can then hang them on a tree or lean them against a tree and they were very commonly used and there are a few Tribes like the shoe or the Iroquois or the Cherokee who are all kind of bringing them back in a sort of artisan way They're really beautiful
if you look them up and they're