Destiny, Miracle Healers and Magical Intervention: Vernacular Beliefs on Involuntary Childlessness in Estonia
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Management of involuntary childlessness.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2228-0987
DOI: 10.1515/jef-2017-0012