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A lot of cultures have a lot of weird superstitions and myths related to childbirth.

I had a Nepalese friend who once told me that if you conceive on a weekend you would have a girl but if you conceive on a weekday you would have a boy.

I pointed out that it must just be a coincidence then that our species has nearly an equal number of men and women, and he agreed that it was a great coincidence.

I then asked him how often that superstition was correct and how often it got it working, he said about 50/50.

Sounds like a slow and inaccurate pregnancy test more then anything else, and apparently it even works. Kinda impressive that they managed to figure it out, I guess thousands of years of fucking around paid off.

Not insane. This is true. Iirc, there's some hormonal changes in the urine that causes the wheat/barley to grow first, depending on the sex of the fetus.

The accuracy of this method is overexaggerated, though. Iirc, when tested, it was found to be something like 75% accurate. For what it's worth, that's pretty accurate for the ancient world

I like that the part of the story that happens current-day and is easily checked is the part that starts with "It is said".

Peeing is the same thing as pinging?

That's my effort to make this logical. It hurt.

I think something like this was used but only as a pregnancy test. Where do people get these extra wild ideas from?

Seems totally reasonable

/s