Guest guest Posted March 13, 2005 Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 Mama Fica sounds like she was a very wise woman. Jo > Hi lynda, > > as a little girl in the 70's I grew up in Dominican Republic, > There was this one particular old lady, who was the Midwife of the > entire town. > since people were poor, they went to her(she only charged about > ten bucks, sometimes free). My mom was born with her, and she had > been a midwife since the 1930's. > > She had a million recipes, and a million homeopathy herbal teas in > her head. She was like the " doctor " of the town. > There were others like her, but she had the record of the most live > births. " no kid ever died with me " she would say. > > this is how she made her living and people just did what she said. > (even grown men, the way she was respected made an impression on me) > Not all of it made sense of course. > When she died at 96 in the 1993, Her funeral when on for miles and > miles, nobody went to work that day, for their " mother " had died. > When I was a little girl, I really thought that she had mystical > powers, even though she wasn't physically beautiful. Her name was > MaMa fica. > of course, i'ts not like that anymore, due to modernization and > development, people now use doctors more in that town. > > > > , " Lynda " <lurine@s...> wrote: > > Where do you live/come from? > > > > Lynda > > - > > anouk sickler > > > >someone trivializes my job. Where I come from Mothers and > Motherhood is worshipped and we are Goddesses. To send an email to - > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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