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The Child-Selling Ritual is a symbolic rite performed to protect a newborn or expected child from evil spirits, the threat of death, or misfortune. The core logic of the ritual lies in concealing the child’s true parental identity from evil spirits or presenting the child as belonging to someone else, thereby deceiving the forces believed to cause death, misfortune, or possession. In Turkish folk narratives, this practice is called “child-selling,” while in Slavic beliefs, a ritual serving the s