Cow blowing,[1] Kuhblasen,[2] phooka, or doom dev[3] is a process used in many countries according to ethnographers, in which forceful blowing of air into a cow's vagina (or sometimes anus) is applied to induce her to produce more milk.
Cow blowing was the reason why Gandhi abjured cow milk, saying that "since I had come to know that the cow and the buffalo were subjected to the process of phooka, I had conceived a strong disgust for milk."[4]
| People | Area | Author | Year | See (also) | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalmyk (Mongolian people) | southern Russian steppe | Peter Simon Pallas | 1776 | ||
| Scythians | Herodotus | 5th century BC | (to horses) | ||
| Yakuts | Lena River (Siberia) | Gerhard Friedrich Müller | 1736 | ||
| Ethiopians | Ethiopia | I. M. Hildebrandt | 1874 | ||
| Kaffa | Friedrich J. Bieber | 1920 | |||
| Nuer | H. A. Bernatzik | 1929 | E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1951); Luz H, Herz W (1976) | ||
| Dinka | H. A. Bernatzik | 1930 | |||
| Baggara Arabs | Kordofan | McMichael | 1924 | ||
| Somali | C. Keller | 1894 | |||
| Oromo | Ph. Paulischke | 1893 | |||
| Wasiba (part of Haya people) | Kagera Region | H. Rehse | 1910 | Per Rehse, Wasiba insert their arm into the cow anus up the elbow for the same purpose | |
| Turu people | E. Sick | 1915 | |||
| Wagogo | H. Clauss | 1911 | |||
| Khoikhoi | South Africa | Peter Kolb | 1719 | ||
| Masa people | Logone area south of Chad | A. Rühe | 1938 | ||
| Chinese | Tung River (China) | I. H. Edgar | 1924 | Dadu River (Sichuan province) | |
| India | T. Murari | 1937 | Mahatma Gandhi (1927/1929) | phooka | |
| Alps (Untergurgl, upper Ötztal), Pfitscher Joch | 1939 | ||||
| Pyrenees | 1939 |
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