No one noticed that in the small village of Myska Odzanskia in southwestern Poland, a male child was born in the past nine years only during a firefighting competition for boys.
The reason for this, says the British Sunday Telegraph, which published the news, is as simple as surprising, not born in this village inhabited by 300 people, in nearly a decade, a male boy, while witnessed during this period the birth of 12 girls.
Because of the scarcity of males suffered by the village, the mayor offered a prize money for the first family to give birth to a male, and the international media flocked to find out this rare phenomenon.
Awards and gifts for the expected male
Mayor Raymond Frischko, father of two girls, told the Sunday Telegraph that the media's interest in their village was surprising, adding that there was so much talk about them in such ways that he even thought of calling the first male child a street in the village. What the village wishes will get wonderful gifts and the village will plant an oak tree and call it.
Frischko said doctors from all of Poland kept contacting him with advice on how to encourage male births, saying that a retired doctor told him that the child's sex was dependent on what the mother ate, and calcium-rich food guaranteed to have children.
The mayor launched a blink that says that the Polish peasants tried and guaranteed way to have males, namely to put an ax under the marriage bed!
inquisitiveness
The head of the village, Christina Zdziak, the mother of two girls, said they began to treat this phenomenon with a curiosity, noting that she has always said that nature will find ways to balance things, such as that there is an abundance of girls in the village, and there is an abundance of males in another village in the world.
The village's male scarcity has worried its residents as Myska Odzanskia, like many Polish villages, is fighting a losing battle to retain its population as people leave the fields to Poland's booming cities. Without men engaging in agriculture, people fear the conflict will become more difficult. .
They abandoned agriculture
Zdziak said everyone in the village had a family living and working elsewhere in the European Union, and some villagers were worried that agriculture would not be found in the future.
Scientists have advised people not to jump to conclusions about why many females were born in the village.
"History and birth statistics should be researched to see if the parents of the girls are not blood-related to each other, even if they are distant, in addition to identifying in detail the environment in which they grew up," said Professor Raval Plowski, head of the genetic department at Warsaw Medical University. Parents and children, only in this way can get clues help in interpretation. "