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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.In medieval times women, suffering agonizing pain in pregnancy, were assured by witches that its cause was not the growing child but kittens inside their womb, and that only a magical potion could destroy the brood and thereby alleviate their suffering. Pregnant women who thought they were going to give birth to a litter of kittens became agitated and disgusted, of course.
As late as 1654, a woman tried in a Scottish court for attempting to procure as abortion, pleaded in excuse that she had done so because she had 'cats in her bellie.'
From "How Did It Begin?" by R. Brasch (Pocket Books, New York, 1966), quoted on
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