How to increase the chances of getting pregnant? Many propitiatory symbols, the complex calculations from the days of ovulation, the supersophisticated techniques. Yet in some countries around the world they still believe in some truly bizarre propitiatory rites and traditions.

Here are a few of them.

• In Japan, the penis festival

In Japan, in the city of Kawasaki, the Kanamara Matsuri is held every year in April, a real fertility festival by which participants carry huge penis-shaped statues. Couples are blessed and wanted to become pregnant within the following year during this holiday.

• In the United States, the snow panties

An American invented snowball underpants, that is, a cooler underpants. Since numerous studies show that in order to function properly a mans testicles must not be exposed to too high temperatures, the cooling pant keeps the penis at the right temperature and increases the quality of sperm. At least that’s what its inventor says.

• In Naples, the fertility chair

Many women queue outside the house of Santarella Maria Francesca of the Five Wounds of Jesus to sit down on a fertility chair

The kilt keeps a mans testicles cool, perhaps a little less than the snow pants. a Scottish study suggested when men wore traditional kilts rather than jeans or tight pants, sperm quality improved significantly.

Legend has it the Mayan queen dreamed of a white elephant before giving birth to the Buddha. And so many couples keep elephant figurines at home

• In China, a conception room

A small one suite with all the comforts and full of details and details that should favor sexual understanding. They set it up in China and not in a red light district, but in the hospital in the Songhziniao province, in the town of Wuhan, with the aim of helping couples who don't manage to have childrenthe.

• The moonstone for the Arabs

The moon has a great symbolic value as regards fertility. And women wear moonstones hidden within their clothes.

• In the Philippines, the duck egg

Firm, stiff duck egg is recognized as an aphrodisiac as well as a fertility booster

• In Africa, the Namji doll

Dolls in Africa are widespread symbols of fertility, young women put wooden dolls, the Namji dolls, within their bedrooms to increase fertility.