The good twin/bad twin thingie is a fairly common meme in some Australian Aboriginal cultures, and, like you suggest above, it's a bit of mythology that bleeds over into real-life consequences.
IIRC, there are indications that second-born twins were routinely killed in some places.
(and that adoption solution you mention is probably going to translate into a general cultural suspicion of adoptees and orphans...)
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Date: 17 Mar 2011 00:33 (UTC)IIRC, there are indications that second-born twins were routinely killed in some places.
(and that adoption solution you mention is probably going to translate into a general cultural suspicion of adoptees and orphans...)