《Superstition》
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Paper Doll Seeks Child
Have you heard of the paper doll for seeking a child?
It has a baby girl's body, bamboo as bones, and paper as clothing.
Bamboo strips cross the baby's body, white paper covering the whole body, forming a paper doll, with eyes drawn on.
Then it is thrown into the fire and burned, and the baby girl dies.
The next pregnancy will be a baby boy.
My sister-in-law's first pregnancy was a baby girl,
My mother held bamboo strips, staring straight at the newborn baby girl.
I knew, my sister-in-law would give birth to a baby boy in the next pregnancy.
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Folk Remedies
I was not cremated after I died.
My family dried and preserved me.
Later, they ground me into powder, mixed it with honey, and fed it to my younger brother.
It's a folk remedy meant to cure asthma.
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Husband's Secret
I placed the chopsticks upright in the empty bowl,
carefully held them and recited:
"If my husband is cheating on me, let the chopsticks stand."
As soon as I let go,
one chopstick fell, and the other stood firm.
At that moment, I didn't understand what it meant,
but later, I realized,
it was indicating that my husband indeed had issues,
just not in the way I thought.
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