Today we look at mentions of abortion in traditional ballads and the various life and death consequences of historical pregnancy and childbirth. <a href='http://www.bawdyballads.com'>Show notes and transcripts</a> <a href='https://mainlynorfolk.info/sandy.denny/songs/tamlin.html'>Tam Lin: History and versions from Mainly Norfolk </a> “<a href='https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31283/transcription'>Bonny Jean of Aberdeen</a>” <a href='https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past'>Historical rates of child and infant mortality</a> <a href='https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality'>Historical rates of maternal mortality</a> <a href='https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/southern-appalachia-folk-healers-granny-women-neighbor-ladies'>Atlas Obscura: The Long Tradition of Folk Healing of GrannyWomen</a><a href='https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1004/'>Granny Women of Appalachia by Harriet Masters</a> <a rel="payment" href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bawdyballa1">Support the show</a>

Episode 14: Dr. DoGoods Feel Good. Addiction and song

Welcome all you wonderful people, and thank you so much for checking out Bawdy Ballads, where we will explore all the dirty, sassy, and usually surprising old popular songs, and when I say old… I mean old. Four hundred years old old. And along the way we’ll explore all those things that make life a bit more interesting. There’s trickery infidelity, loving, drinking, and fighting. While we dig deep in these songs, we’ll talk about all kinds of things: archetypes, history, folklore, and how so many of these songs hold vast potential for inspiration of new creations.