Truth Or Superstition? Here Are Some Common Old Wives’ Tales About Pregnancy

Marvelous Mayan Predictions

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The Mayan people are an indigenous people located in Mexico and Central America. Mayans really gained a lot of notoriety years ago, after people thought that their calendar predicted the end of the world. Obviously, that did not hold true. However, they have another superstition which may predict the sex of your baby.

Mayans say to take the mothers age at conception and the year of conception and add them together. If the resulting number is even you might be expecting a girl, and if the number is odd then it’s a boy!

Mayans are not the only culture to have invented a mathematical approach to gender prediction, as we’ll see next.