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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.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

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, Ma.s.s._

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.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

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._

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