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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Although I've heard from lots of women who were midwives they seem to know a lot about that stuff

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
You know, they, yeah, they examine and they know because they have a way of --

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
But there might've been some things to do with my mother because of the doctor of course that needs to be taken care of. She was so awfully young when she got married and there might've been something there that they had to correct, you know ...

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
How about Miss Carrigen [[Guess for her name]], did they have any bad feelings or, evil feelings, or superstitions about Miss Carrigen?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Well, I really don't know because I don't know anybody who's had any that I could see, that I could hear them talking about, you know?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Was there anything connected with the after the child was born, for example? Uh, maybe the afterbirth you know, the placenta or something.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Some people used to tell me that they used to have to bury that or something. Did you ever hear of anything like that?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
No, but they might have in the old country before the-- before[[??]]. That could be a very logical thing that they did that. They buried it.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Because you see now we believe, now if I were a godmother for a baby for instance. And this baby was--I [[??]] the dress for this baby. And that baby's baptized is in the head, and he [[??]], and he has a blessed stuff that they use.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
It's my place to take that baptismal dress off that baby, and bring it home and wash it. And take the water that I used to wash it in, and bury it--put it where it would never be stepped upon.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
What did they do with the water that the baby was dunked in and blessed--?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
There had to be pour--probably some place--If it wasn't--had no oil in it. See, it's the oil, it's the things that, see, that touches the dress.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Oh.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
That's the sacred thing. You had to pour the water where it'd not be stepped on, you see what I mean? So it might be the same thing with the afterbirth, see. They had those beliefs, you know.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And the [[??]] administration, they had so many different foolish little things that they'd think about that, you know. We were never allowed to--now I--when I--when they first came out with Kotex, that was a terrible thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Why?
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Oh, because your blood went down the toilet, you had to wash it.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
Oh, I didn't know that.
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
We used to take those rags. Oh, we had rags. And we used to take those rags and soak 'em, and we'd wash 'em, and it was a disgrace if anybody even know, and we had to hide 'em. Oh, when you had brothers in the house it was a terrible thing.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
And we had to hang them out at night when nobody would see them, you know? And use them over.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 2"}
What'd you do with the water that you washed them--
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Oh, what a blessing Kotex was.