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Scissors
Volume 1, entries 1495. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1495
Well, aftah a woman birth a baby an' she's havin' aftahpains, yo' kin put a pair of scissors undah her an' it will cut dat pain. [In folklore any sharp-cutting instrument of steel cuts afterpains: ax, butcherknife, hatchet, razor, saw; see FACI, 2nd ed., Pp.134-135.]