#venefc

“put a pair of scissors under your pillow, open with the points to the head of the bed; no one can harm you or bewitch you”

This is a German superstition/magical practice recorded by Harry Middleton Hyatt in his 1965 book Folklore From Adams County, Illinois.

Hyatt says: 

I was bewitched years ago, and someone told me about putting the scissors under my pillow, open with the points to the head, and I have been doing this every night for years. I never go to sleep without the scissors under my pillow, and I have never been bewitched since that time.

I often have a difficult time remembering prose that doesn’t necessarily rhyme, so I made up a simple melody for the classic Out With Fire, In With Frost incantation.

To be said over a burn (perhaps while rubbing an ice cube over the affected area OR dousing the affected area in cold water).