What part of mythology or folklore did the stork and baby derive from?

Question

What part of mythology or folklore did the stork and baby derive from?

Answer 1

I c/p wikipedia for you:

In Western culture the White Stork is a symbol of childbirth. In Victorian times the details of human reproduction were difficult to approach, especially in reply to a younger child's query of "Where did I come from?"; "The stork brought you to us" was the tactic used to avoid discussion of s*x.  This habit was derived from the once popular superstition that storks were the harbingers of happiness and prosperity, and possibly from the habit of some storks of nesting atop chimneys, down which the new baby could be imagined as entering the house.

The image of a stork bearing an infant wrapped in a sling held in its beak is common in popular culture. The small pink or reddish patches often found on a newborn child's eyelids, between the eyes, on the upper lip, and on the nape of the neck are sometimes still called "stork bites". In fact they are clusters of developing veins that soon fade.

The stork's folkloric role as a bringer of babies and harbinger of luck and prosperity may originate from the Netherlands and Northern Germany, where it is common in children's nursery stories.

Answer 2

i thought it came from the smurfs.......

Answer 3

Storks use to be plentiful and would rest on the peasants low roofs, to avoid foxes at nite, someone was always having a baby....conclusions drawn....baby arrives!  It actually made more sense then the cabbage patch myth. I was told the 1950's watermelon seed swollowed myth.