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  1. Feverfew appears in the Lacnunga, an Old English medicinal text. A healer would boil feverfew, red nettles and plantain in butter, and speak the invocation from the Lacnunga. Then they would dip a knife into the liquid. This should alleviate the stitch, an example of sympathetic magic. A stitch feels like a stabbing pain. If we soothe a stabbing implement, then we should soothe the stitch.

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