Elspeth Buchan became a powerful and charismatic leader of a religious sect known as the Buchanites. The sect lived in various parts throughout south-west Scotland in the late 18th century. Elspeth had the title of "Friend Mother in the Lord". When she died, her followers stole her body. It lay hidden under the bed of one of her disciples for 54 years.
In 1936 he checked into a Warsaw clinic and subsequently gave birth to a baby.
Non-professional male 'barber-surgeons' led the assault, claiming technical superiority on the basis of their use of the obstetrical forceps. The forceps were legally classified as a surgical instrument and women were legally barred from surgical practice - paved the way for male surgeons to claim obstetrics as their own. Doctors delved under a sheet for modesty's sake when delivering in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Today it is still illegal to give birth at home without medical supervision.
A creature substituted by fairies for a stolen infant. Midwives in Scotland pledged to protect the baby and keep a keen eye on the mother and child with a fire vigil lasting until the baby's first sneeze or christening.