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Born with caul over face

Joy (View posts)
Posted: 21 Jul 2002 10:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2005 5:31AM GMT
I was wanting some more information about this Celtic tradition. I was born with a cawl over my face and am just starting to ecplore the tradition and meanings.
thankyou

Born with caul over face

Posted: 9 May 2003 10:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2005 5:31AM GMT
http://www.oldwivestales.net/QandAarticle1013.html

The caul or part of the placenta covering their face has a lot of "mystical meanings." It could prevent you from drowning, enable senators to legislate well, give psychic abilities, it could protect the house etc. Many people still believe these things.

Born with caul over face

James Stanley (View posts)
Posted: 1 Nov 2004 7:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2005 5:32AM GMT
I was born with a cawl, over my face. in 1930 My mother told me she allowed the midwife to have it, to put inside a bible for her son who was in the Royal Navy. She believed that persons born with a cawl would not Die by Drowning. I have twice been saved from drowning. I have never learnt to swim. James L Stanley.

Born with caul over face

Joy Nish (View posts)
Posted: 1 Nov 2004 8:21PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2005 5:32AM GMT
Thanks James for the email. I actually love the water and apparently as a baby was thrown into the water by my brothers and sisters all the time and loved it.
Do you find that you have extra senstive intuition? and soemtimes know things that other people dont?

Born with cal over face

James Stanley (View posts)
Posted: 1 Nov 2004 8:46PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 3 Dec 2005 5:32AM GMT
I have never known for sure if something was going to happen. I just had a sense that thing were not right, and only later the answer came to me. and could then relate to what I had sensed. It was more or less a two stage thing. I do believe that it has been of great help to me when researching Genealogy. James L Stanley

Born with caul over face

Posted: 3 Dec 2005 5:31AM GMT
Classification: Query
I found this information about the Caul that can cover the face of a child at birth. Check out this link.
http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENIRE/1999-01/09170115...

Born with caul over face

scott sandoz (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jan 2006 12:13AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Mar 2006 4:21PM GMT
My daughter was born with a cawl too. She has been a very unique person ever since. Yes I am biased, but I hear it from so many others. The water issue is interesting. My Italian Aunt born in the 20's also mentioned that a captain of a ship would pay anything for such a physical good luck piece. I am blessed to have found such news on the net, thanks. Scott

Born with caul over face

Jim Stanley (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jan 2006 2:56PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Mar 2006 4:21PM GMT
I cannot remember if IO had mentioned that the cawl I was born with was put inside a Bible for the Midwifes son who was serving in the Royal Navy Jim

Born with caul over face

scott sandoz (View posts)
Posted: 5 Jan 2006 3:04PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 12 Mar 2006 4:21PM GMT
Yes Jim, you did mention this about te midwife and the bible. What a powerful story.

Do you have any stories from the midwife and her Bible that would you would like to share?

thanks again

Re: Born with caul over face

Posted: 25 Sep 2007 12:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: s
I was born with a "veil" over my face in 1948. My mother said that the nurses at the hospital were all so excited because they told her that such a child had healing abilities and abilities to see and feel things that others do not. I had never heard about the drowning part of it, but I have always loved the water and was a life guard for six years. I pulled eight or nine kids out of the water when they were in distress. I am quite intuitive and almost always am right on when suming up the traits of a person recently met. I am very involved in the church and some people feel that I have an ability to use God's power to help and heal others through holy water, healing oil and prayer.
My parent had a little baby girl die two years before I was born and I thought maybe the nurses just told my mum that to make her feel better.
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