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Children bring good luck to a house, and a childless woman is pitied whether she is married or single. Barrenness is held to be such a misfortune that hoodoo doctors ply a good trade in charms to cure or prevent it. Married couples and husbandless women who already have large families will adopt as many children as they can acquire and raise them as carefully as the fruit of their own bodies (172).

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