How your baby grows their milk teeth matters a lot in the Kisii culture.
There are things the infant's mother can't do or touch, with the toddlers facing the same fate in their older years.
If you're not into the tradition, then it's hectic wrapping your mind around the cultural theory.
Kids normally grow their first, front milk teeth starting from the lower jaw.
It's believed if your infants grow their first, front milk teeth starting from the upper jaw, then as their mother, you cannot do the following;
1. You cannot take milk from somebody's cow.
If you knowingly do this without caring about the consequences, then you're setting yourself for trouble.
Mothers whose kids grew their milk teeth starting from the upper jaw are traditionally barred from buying or accessing milk from somebody's cow.
It's believed that if they feed on the milk, then the cow will cut its milk.
2. You will never walk into somebody's garden or harvest their vegetables.
If your kids had an abnormal milk-teeth growth,you're a huge red flag to women on their gardens.
Most will cordon you off from accessing their greens or even picking them for a meal.
It's believed women who had their kids grow their shedding-teeth starting from the upper jaw, will make the vegetables dry up sooner or later if they harvest them.
It's something more of a mystery to understand how 'abnormal milk teeth' hold such unfathomable powers.
Scary it may seem, however, but there is a traditional remedy to rescue one from such a cursed life.
Kisii traditions demand the mother and her babies with the abnormal milk-teeth to feed on Rirongo (soil scooped from the centre of crisscrossed roads) to be cleansed and live normally like other people.
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