Tanit, goddess of fertility

Really? Really?

Really!
Crazy, or coincidence?

Gosh!

Wait, wasn't Tanit the goddess for whom child sacrifice was practised in Carthage??

I’ve read a few different versions of this and I rather fancy something may have been lost in translation. To me the two notions of fertility and (usually the first) child sacrifice seem contradictory, but all the sources I’ve read seem to go for both with Tanit. And as for the gift shop......

Do you like fluffy or blunt ....oh go on then I ll be blunt,
Load of old tosh

There are more things in heaven and earth......

I always thought it was the wearer that was supposed to benefit from fertility not that it 'rubbed off' on others....

Save the NHS millions and millions of pounds, no more IVF, just give a pair of earings

???Anniebach love it

At its worst mumsyface it's useless but is harmless and not outrageous.

DS and DiL expect their first baby in April and since her birthday is next week I hope to get out today to buy some earrings with moonstones as they are said to be linked to pregnancy and childbirth.
They can't do any harm, are pretty and wearable and as I see it, make a statement that I want to be supportive.

It's absolutely fine and understandable for posters to be sceptical but I do hope the thread doesn't become nasty as so many have over the last few days.
Keep us up to speed please and good luck to all!

I thought that said ‘keep on the speed’ ???
As if an earring can make people pregnant the things some people believe in naive or what I remember when very young in an office situation being told that sitting on a certain chair would make people pregnant ?

Reminds me of the custom of giving brides horseshoes on their wedding day , I had several, they didn’t work !

Bluebelle, you could well be right that’s it’s a load of old tosh ?, and I remember all sorts of things to do or not to do around pregnancy from “the bad old days”!
Nanandgrampy - that sounds like casting a spell on someone OMG!
Anniebach, great idea £££.
Still waiting.....and wearing the earrings again today! ?

I quite like the mystical side of fertility.
Did anyone hang a needle on cotton over their belly to 'dowse' the baby's sex?

Well Mumsy if you like to think that tourist ear rings from Carthage can do anything magical that is up to you.
Carthage itself didn’t have much luck though did it, just a pile of stones now ( I fell over a stone there, so don’t feel too kindly towards the place)
Now....if you had told us that you were expecting a baby since you wore them....??????????

At 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' in Blackpool there was a fertility figure of some kind.
People would travel from all over to go there, and thought it was worth a try..

Hi Lemongrove - at 64 that would be a miracle, wouldn’t it!

Ahh but earrings have no age limits Mumsyface just out of curiosity what is a mumsyface ?

When I lived in West Africa I acquired a set of traditional carved fertility figures. Since then, I've also acquired five grandchildren! A-mazing!

Bluebelle , it’s what my sons called me, as teenagers, when I was worrying to obviously about them.

SueDomin - yes, indeed! ?

Is there any harm in having something to pray to?
I know of a Buddhist temple where pilgrims go to pray for a child. The locals refuse to enter as they already have enough children.
Mind you, they used to burn witches not 100yds from where I sit, until the 1700s.

I was given a little carved figure of a boy by my mother-in-law when we got married, and 1st baby arrived 9 months later . After 5 children we decided maybe we should hide it and haven't seen it for years. Wonder every now and then where it got too...................?

Well a few years ago I was holidaying in Tunis and wanted to visit Carthage, but couldn't because it was considered unsafe after a terror attack. Since then my DIL has had two babies. Coincidence???