When I was growing up, there was at one family I knew whose father spanked with a hairbrush. I never saw it happen. But when the boy was having a dispute with his dad, his father at one point started walking up the stairs saying out loud that he was going to find the hairbrush. The boy ran after him saying "no! no!" He wasn't spanked that time, but it was obvious that his father had spanked him with a hairbrush on prior occasions.
Another boy I knew when I was growing up loved to tell the story about how his father once "broke his hand" while spanking him. He said that after that his father always used a hairbrush.
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