In The Wax Child, authored by Olga Ravn, every local woman who is undergoing delivery of her baby, will get the help of a head midwife, accompanied by a group of women. (Ravn, p. 7) They assist in the mother’s labor, by using a skin girdle. The birthing mother’s pains are transferred to the skin girdle, which has to be held by a woman. The group of women take turns to hold the skin girdle.

In medical science, there is no process by which one person’s pain can be transferred to an intermediary to bear. It sounds like witchcraft, or the dark arts.

When Anne Bille was giving birth, her kinswoman, Christenze, was among the group of women taking turns to hold the skin girdle. The narrator said since Christenze was a virgin and strong, she could manage the pain in the skin girdle, and she held it for the longest time, among all the women in the group.

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