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what's with a folkfore story about cranes used to deliver babies from house to house?

where did the story originated from? how and why did it happened?

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Well, the story was used to explain where babies come from to smaller children, but it was storks, not cranes, and Im sure it ticked Mother Goose off _ But, the the myth originated in greek mythology see: In Greek mythology, Gerana was an ?thiope, the enemy of Hera, who changed her into a stork, a punishment Hera also inflicted on Antigone, daughter of Laomedon of Troy (Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.93). Stork-Gerana tried to abduct her child, Mopsus. This accounted, for the Greeks, for the mythic theme of the war between the pygmies and the storks. In popular Western culture, there is a common image of a stork bearing an infant wrapped in cloths held in its beak; the stork, rather than absconding with the child Mopsus, is pictured as delivering the infant, an image of childbirth.
It was storks. And it was from a cartoon from way back in the 30's called shuffle to buffalo or some similar title.
It is Storks so parents didn't have to discuss sex with children at an eary age. My parents told me they found me on the church door step and took me home and adopted me because no one else wanted me. Nice huh? We have one family picture taken before I was born and even though we had a nice home and a nice cabin on a beautiful lake they said they couldn't afford to have another one taken...and they wonder why I have issues. lol
It's okorder /-- The fable that babies are brought by storks is from Ger. and Du. nursery stories, no doubt from the notion that storks nesting on one's roof meant good luck, often in the form of family happiness. Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001 Douglas Harper
i thought it was off dumbo, a cartton of an elephant with big ears and it could fly lol ==]

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