Part 33 (1/2)

_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.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

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, Ma.s.s._

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, Ma.s.s._

903. To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wis.h.i.+ng 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, Ma.s.s._