ABSTRACT
THE CHILD plays an important part in the Folklore of all nations, including the Jews, but nowhere is the pre-natal or embryo period given such prominence as among the latter, for all the fancies and legends clustering round the prenatal embryo are intended to stress the idea that the soul, a divine spark, is pre-existent, that life on this planet is ephemeral and that this world is only a vestibule leading to the world to be.
