This tribe in Madagascar believe having twins is taboo. Mothers give away their babies or risk bringing bad luck on the community by going against ancestral tradition.
Mananjary's 'cursed twins' is a brutal taboo, dating back to the first Antambahoaka tribe leader. The first wife he chose died in childbirth of twins. Unhappiness then struck his second and third wives so the twins birth was seen as a curse. Another theory is that twins were a threat the later Queen Ranavalona's power.
Twins are seen as evil and, therefore, bad luck
Superstitions about twins are frowned upon in Japan. It is said that different sex twins are reincarnation of a couple who died together in their past lives.
Igbo society viewed twins as a bad omen sent by the “Gods.” They considered twins as supernatural beings that could bring devastation upon society. In Chinua Achebe's acclaimed novel, Things Fall Apart, I learn that the Earth goddess had decreed that twins “were an offence on the land and must be destroyed.
Because fraternal, or dizygotic, twins are 2 separate fertilized eggs, they usually develop 2 separate amniotic sacs, placentas, and supporting structures. Identical, or monozygotic, twins may or may not share the same amniotic sac, depending on how early the single fertilized egg divides into 2.
In the mother's womb (uterus), most identical twins share the same placenta. (They get oxygen and nutrients from the mother and get rid of wastes through the placenta.) But they usually grow within separate amniotic sacs. In rare cases, identical twins share one amniotic sac.
Two placentas and two amniotic sacs.
A twin pregnancy with two placentas and two amniotic sacs is the optimal twin pregnancy, as each baby has its own nutritional source and protective membrane.
Twins can occur either when two separate eggs become fertilized in the womb or when a single fertilized egg splits into two embryos. Having twins is more common now than it was in the past. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , twin births have nearly doubled over the last 40 years.
In West Africa, the mythologizing of twinhood has created contrasting superstitions; for some cultures, like the Igbo, twins are regarded as bad omens, a disruption of the natural order. The Yoruba, however, see twins as a blessing, even going so far as to view them as supernatural beings.
During the Joseon era, some believed that fraternal twins were bad luck. One of the twins had to be eliminated and it was usually the girl, since a woman was considered less worthy and certainly could not inherit the throne.
Buddhist beliefs regarding twins
According to Buddhist lore, twins with different genders are reincarnations of doomed lovers and carry those spirits – malicious or not – with them.
Heredity – a woman is more likely to conceive fraternal twins if she is a fraternal twin, has already had fraternal twins, or has siblings who are fraternal twins. Race – Black African women have the highest incidence of twins, while Asian women have the lowest.
The birth of twins was seen as an evil curse among the Efik people. Natives feared that the father of one of the babies was an evil spirit and that the mother was guilty of a grievous sin. As a result, the Efik often abandoned the twin babies in the bush. It was considered a taboo to have twins.
The Evil Twins, Victor and Moritz, are two hyper-intelligent, vengeful mutant parrots that lived for a long time in the Tenth Dimension. They have immense power in Crash's dimension, being able to control the motion of objects and even bringing inanimate things to life through sheer will.
In ancient times, the Yoruba viewed twins with suspicion, and sometimes sacrificed them. But now twins are considered lucky. In contrast to the Western view, the firstborn twin is considered the younger of the two. The Yoruba believe that the "senior" twin sent the younger one out first to scout the world.
Twins literally do not know how to exist as one. When a twin dies, the twinless twin longs to reconnect. The twinless twin may have phantom pain or feel half dead. He or she may feel a need to represent both him or herself and the deceased twin or may even take on behaviors of the deceased twin.
During the race Macha went into labour and at the race's end gave birth to twins. But in saving her husband's life she had forfeited her own. Before she died she found the strength to issue both a terrible curse and a blessing, a legacy symbolised by the twins she leaves behind.
Long ago, before the gods had split the world into many lands, there lived twin Baku brothers named Aoi, the Blue and Akai, the Red. The brothers fed on the dreams of mortal creatures, for when mortals such as humans or kappa dream, they create new experiences in their heads.
This is called co-bedding and is perfectly safe. In fact, putting twins in the same cot can help them regulate their body temperatures and sleep cycles, and can soothe them and their twin.
The results suggest that twin fetuses are aware of their counterparts in the womb, that they prefer to interact with them, and that they respond to them in special ways. Contact between them appeared to be planned—not an accidental outcome of spatial proximity, says study co-author Cristina Becchio of Turin.
Hyperovulation-stimulating foods: There are a few foods that naturally increase the rate of ovulation and stimulate ovaries to release multiple eggs. Such hyperovulation stimulating foods include cassava (an African wild yam or sweet potato), tofu, soy isoflavones, whole grains, and whole wheat.
Understanding Monoaminotic 'Momo' Twins
Monochorionic twins are identical twins who share a single placenta. They represent around 70% of identical twin pregnancies. Monochorionic-diamniotic twins are identical twins who share a placenta, but each has their own amniotic sac.
Identical twins do not have identical fingerprints, even though their identical genes give them very similar patterns. 1 The fetus begins developing fingerprint patterns in the early weeks of pregnancy. Small differences in the womb environment conspire to give each twin different, but similar, fingerprints.