Motherhood and birth

When a male child was born, an iron object was given as a gift, while for girls the gift could vary: some elderly women said they received sponges, others spun hemp distaffs. The value of the gift was purely symbolic; for example, a boy was given rifle cartridges as a gift because the donor, at that moment, had nothing else with him.
Another gift that was given to the unborn child was peace, that is, a small donation of money, generally a few coins. A rite linked to birth was the preparation of the baby boy (lu bambənillə): on the occasion of the harvest, in the year of the child's birth, a barrel of cooked wine was filled and uncorked on his eighteenth birthday.
On the occasion of the birth of a child, peasants used to plant a tree destined for tall growth; oak was usually chosen, but the elderly remember that olive trees were not rare.