886. Rub a white bean on the warts, wrap it in paper, and throw it on the

road; whoever picks it up will get the warts.

Connecticut.



887. If you find an old bone in the field, rub the wart with it, then lay

it down exactly as you found it. The wart will be cured.

Maine.



888. If a person has warts, he should rub them with a bone, and after

replacing the bone they are said to leave.

Alabama.



889. Rub a wart with the yellow milky juice of celandine (Chelidonium

majus).

Massachusetts.



890. The juice of wild celandine (Impatiens fulva) is used as a wart

cure.

Franconia, N.H.



891. Dandelion juice will cure warts.

Revere Beach, Mass.



892. The milky juice of the Euphorbia hypericifolia (and other small

prostrate Euphorbias) is thought to be a sure cure for warts.

Northern Ohio.



893. The milky juice of the common cypress spurge (Euphorbia

Cyparissias) will cure warts.



894. The juice of the common large milk-weeds (Asclepias) will cure warts.

Massachusetts.



895. The juice of the milk-thistles (Sonchus) will cure warts.

Prince Edward Island.



896. The milky juice of the Osage orange is used as a wart-cure.

Southern Ohio.



897. The first time a person has seen your wart, if it is rubbed with

fresh cream by that person, the wart will surely go away.

Bruynswick, N.Y.



898[TN-7] Rub a wart with a stolen dish-cloth, and then hide or bury the

latter. As it decays, the wart will disappear.

General in the United States.



899. Rub the wart with a stolen dish-cloth, and secrete the dish-cloth

until it becomes mouldy and decays, then the wart is cured.

Bucks Co., Pa.



900. To cure a wart: Draw a blade across it, and then draw the knife

across a sweet apple-tree.

Lawrence, Mass.



901. Warts are cured by stealing pork from the family barrel of salted

pork, rubbing the warts with it, and throwing it into the road. The

person who picks it up gets the warts.

Bruynswick, N.Y.



902. Sell your warts for money, throw the money away anywhere, but on

your own land. Whoever picks up the money gets also the warts.

Springfield, Mass.



903. To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of

a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else.

Connecticut.



904. Make a wart bleed, and put the blood on a penny, throw the latter

away, and the finder will get the wart.



905. Cut up an onion, rub the wart with each slice, and bury all the

slices.

Bucks Co., Pa.



906. Split a pea and rub the wart with both pieces, make a wish that some

person shall get the wart, throw one piece over one shoulder and the

other over the other (into the river), and the wart will go to the person

wished.

Miramichi, N.B.



907. If you rub your warts with a pebble, wrap the pebble in paper, and

throw it away; the person who picks it up will have them come to him. Or,

should you label the paper with some one's name and throw it away, the

warts will go to the person whose name you have written.

New England.



908. Take a green, mossy pebble, wrap it up, tie it, and throw it away.

The finder will catch the wart which you had.

Rhode Island.



909. Take as many pebbles as there are warts. Rub them on the warts. Roll

them in paper and throw them away. The finder takes the warts.

Boxford, Mass.



910. Go out of doors, count three, stop and pick up the stone nearest to

your toe. Wrap it up in a paper, and throw it away. The one that picks it

up will get the warts.

Providence, R.I.



911. Count out secretly as many stones as you have warts, tie in a rag,

and throw them where they can't be seen.

Massachusetts.



912. If you have warts, walk nine steps backward with your eyes shut,

having just picked up a pebble with which rub the wart, and throw it

away.

Fort Worth, Tex.



913. To cure warts, wash the hands in warm pig's blood.

Nova Scotia.



914. Steal as many pins as you have warts, wrap them in paper, and throw

them in the road: the warts will attack whoever picks up the paper, and

leave you.

Bruynswick, N.Y.



915. Run a pin through the wart, and put the pin in the road; the finder

gets the wart.

Missouri.



916. Rub warts with the head of a pin; hide the latter and do not look

for it, or tie a knot in a string, lay it away, and do not look for it,

and the warts will disappear.

Western New York.



917. Take a potato and rub it over the wart, then wrap the potato in a

piece of paper and throw it away. The one who finds it will have the wart.

Maine.



918. Rub the wart with a cotton rag, spit on the rag and hide it under a

water-board (a wooden gutter used as a duct for rain-water off the roof

of a house), where the water will drip on it. The whole operation must be

kept secret.

Kansas.



919. Rub the wart with rock-salt till it bleeds, and throw a lump of salt

in the fire; if it crackles and snaps out of the fire, the wart will get

well; if not, not.

Central Maine.



920. Binding a slug (Limax) on a wart will cure it.

Cazenovia, N.Y.



921. Rub the warts with the sole of your shoe; as the leather wears away,

the warts depart.

Springfield, Mass.



922. When a person wishes to remove warts from his hand, cut as many

notches on a stick as you have warts, and standing on a bridge, throw

the stick over your left shoulder, and turn your head; they will go off

before you leave the bridge.

Alabama.



923. Cut notches in a stick to the number of warts you have, and then

bury the stick.

Massachusetts.



924. Some pretend to remove warts by touching with the sharp point of a

stick and rubbing them in the notch of another stick; then if the patient

tells of it, they will come back.[TN-8]

Alabama.



925. Take as many joints of oat or wheat straw as a person has warts, and

burn them under a stone. As the joints rot, the warts disappear. This is

to be done by another for you.

Cape Breton.



926. Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the

knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.

Southern Indiana.



927. Kill a toad, and put its blood on the wart. The warts will go away

in three weeks.

Marquette, Mich.



928. Warts are cured by tying a knot in a string for every wart, and

putting under the eaves of the house. The warts go as the string rots.

Ohio.



929. Warts may be cured by applying to them water standing in the hollow

of an oaken stump.

Boxford, Mass., and Ohio.