A well-travelled Native American tribal leader had three wives. By coincidence, they all got pregnant at the same time. And went into labour at the same time. The leader laid out the hides of animals he had hunted for the women to give birth on, because the clan belief was that the newborn children would take on the qualities of the animals. Since he had hunted far and wide, these were not the usual trophies: one was a lion, the second a tiger, the third a hippopotamus. In due course, all the women gave birth. The one lying on the tiger skin had a son; the one on the lion skin also had a son; but the woman on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. The reason was simple. The sons of the squaw on the hippopotamus are equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides.
(I'll leave now.)
