IN MALATYA
The newborn child is salted . This process prevents the child to warm up and sweat . The newborn child is swaddled with a reddish soil called " höllük " but this practice had gone out with the ark today . The woman who has just given birth is locally called " loğusa " or " dığasken ". Another tradition is called " kırklama ". On the twentieth and fortieth day , forty spoons of water and forty barley are added to the water where the child will be washed . Water is poured from a sieve over the head of the child . Thus , forty is subtracted . After forty , the factors that would harm the child and the mother are eliminated .
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