Editing Scissors (section)

===Superstition===
Scissors have a widespread place in cultural superstitions. In many cases, the details of the superstition may be specific to a given country, region, tribe, religion or even situation.
*Africa
**In parts of North [[Africa]], it was held that scissors could be used to [[curse]] a bridegroom. When the bridegroom was on horseback, the person enacting the curse would stand behind him with the scissors open and call his name. If the bridegroom answered to his name being called, the scissors would then be snapped shut and the bridegroom would be unable to consummate his marriage with his bride.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht_02x-2JksC&q=scissors+superstitions&pg=PA213 |title=Encyclopedia of Superstitions 1949 – Edwin Radford, Mona A. Radford – Google Boeken |date=October 2004 |isbn=9781417976553 |access-date=2012-02-28 |last1=Radford |first1=Edwin |last2=Radford |first2=Mona A. |publisher=Kessinger |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409220439/https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht_02x-2JksC&q=scissors+superstitions&pg=PA213 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*North America
**United States
***In [[New Orleans]], some believed that putting an open pair of scissors underneath your [[pillow]] at night was a sound method for sleeping well, even if one is cursed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/hearn/nos.htm |title=New Orleans Superstitions |date=1886 |first1=Lafcadio |last1=Hearn |publisher=Internet Sacred Text Archive |access-date=2012-02-28 |archive-date=2012-01-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127093351/http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/hearn/nos.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>