Where and when was it that adults began telling small children they were found under a cabbage leaf?

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I think they should be told the truth....it's under a gooseberry bush.
! A cabbage leaf! That is crazy.
I'm not sure when it started, but in Europe, Russia in particular, mothers tell their children this. They don't want their kids to know where they came from or how. Sorry if I didn't help you much, but I grew up hearing parents telling their kids that they found them in a cabbage.
In Iowa in 1887 just after the "missing" Scheuver twins were found, after a search by fearful neighbors, and family, under an abnormally large cabbage, fast asleep, dreaming of escape from the Midwest.

The parents had always claimed that the two had actually been born under just such a cabbage when their mother went into labor, unexpectedly, whilst harvesting. :)))
In the aisles of Toys R Us, sometime in the early 1980s.
I never heard that expression until I was in my twenties. So I don't think it was in common use in our area (Calif., east of San Francisco Bay). So I think it must not have been in use for a great long time or it would have been more in general usage.

I'd guess the story about the twins above might take looking into, sounds logical.

My older sisters told me that I'd been found on a trash heap. Come to think of it they are still nasty.

As far as the process of reproduction goes, we had animals and I can't remember not knowing how procreation was accomplished.
As soon as kids started asking "where did I come from"
Actually I never heard that story. I was told babies were brought by the stork. Not true?

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