Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb

Studer, Nina Salouâ (16 February 2020). Where a Pregnancy Can Last for Years: The Remarkable Colonial Reports of Sleeping Pregnancies in the Maghreb. Nursing Clio

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A couple patiently wait for a healthy child after a pregnancy that has taken several years; a desperate widow claims her new-born is her husband’s child, years after his death; fetuses are made to “fall asleep” in the womb and hibernate there for years until woken up again. All of these cases were explained through the same belief across the whole of the colonial Maghreb – the belief in the sleeping child, in Arabic “rāqid” (“the sleeping one”), or “rāged" or “bū mergūd” in the Maghrebi dialects, which is usually translated as a sleeping pregnancy in English.

Item Type:	Newspaper or Magazine Article
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institut für Studien zum Nahen Osten und zu muslimischen Gesellschaften
UniBE Contributor:	Studer, Nina Salouâ
Subjects:	200 Religion > 290 Other religions 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore 900 History > 960 History of Africa
Language:	English
Submitter:	Nina Salouâ Studer
Date Deposited:	17 Jun 2020 10:02
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:38
Additional Information:	Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/142997