Thank you, it sounds really great!
Thank you!
At what point should we contact the PI? I understand that playing to... (read more)
TL/DR: My father-in-law is missing, asking for help/advice in coordinating search from abroad
This is not the thing I hoped I would post here after years of lurking, but situation is rather extreme and I try to get all the help I could get.
My father-in-law, Igor, has gone missing in LA after the stroke; because of his medical condition he is confused and unable to use his phone. He doesn’t have any friends or relatives in the US, his English is not very good (he is Ukrainian and only moved to LA last year), and he doesn’t have a place to go to – his landlord has evicted him from the apartment he... (read more)
A Russian folklorist found that about 8 percent of her collection of thousands of lullabies were songs wishing death on babies, presumably weak infants like those mentioned here whose survival was uncertain and who may have been in pain.
I am not sure that this should be taken at face value – death lullabies can be interpreted as a sort of protection ritual, aiming to ward off the actual danger to the child. See, for example, https://hekint.org/2017/01/30/death-lullabies-in-russian-culture/
We have found him! All it took in the end was to call all the hospitals and ERs in the LA until we found the one he was admitted to. Hoorah, and thank you!