Really? Like the soul entering male fetuses before female fetuses. I can picture two souls having a beer together and one lamenting it has to enter a female. That must have been a drag considering the way women were treated in those days. I suppose that explains why souls entered females later. I bet those poor souls waited until the last minute.
Then there's "quickening" when it was said the soul entered the fetus. That would be analogous to "last call" at the pub. While some were saying, "One for the road" others mumbled "I'll take one for the uterus."
Yep, can't say history had absurd beliefs. Perhaps you prefer the term bizarre? Ludicrous? Psycho?