Whats with a folkfore story about cranes used to deliver babies from house to house?
Well, the story was used to explain where babies come from to smaller children, but it was storks, not cranes, and Im sure it ticked Mother Goose off >_< But, the the myth originated in greek mythology see: In Greek mythology, Gerana was an Æthiope, the enemy of Hera, who changed her into a stork, a punishment Hera also inflicted on Antigone, daughter of Laomedon of Troy (Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.93). Stork-Gerana tried to abduct her child, Mopsus. This accounted, for the Greeks, for the mythic theme of the war between the pygmies and the storks. In popular Western culture, there is a common image of a stork bearing an infant wrapped in cloths held in its beak; the stork, rather than absconding with the child Mopsus, is pictured as delivering the infant, an image of childbirth.
