2. Blood from the warts on a cow's bag coming in contact with a
person's hands will cause warts to appear on them.
_New Hampshire._

873. Blood from a wart, especially if applied to the tongue, will cause
warts to appear.
_New Jersey._

874. To count another person's warts will cause them to appear on you.
_General in the United States._

875. If one counts stars while lying on his back, he will have as many
warts as he has counted stars.
_New York and Trenton, N.J._

876. To drink the water in which eggs have been boiled will cause
internal warts.
_Miramichi, N.B._

877. Washing the hands in water in which eggs have been boiled causes
warts to grow.
_Cape Breton and Eastern Massachusetts._

878. Warts are caused by touching the white of an egg.
_Salem, Mass._

879. To touch the jelly-fish will cause warts.
_Halifax, N.S., and parts of Eastern New England._

880. Touching the excrescences that sometimes appear on trees will cause
warts on the hand of the person who touches them.
_New England._

881. The handling of large species of toadstool, sometimes popularly
called "wart-toadstool," will cause warts to grow on the part of the hand
coming in contact with it.
_New Hampshire._

882. The handling of a toad will cause warts to appear.
_General in the United States._

CURES.

883. To cure a wart, grease it with stolen bacon, and hide the latter.

884. Split a bean and put one half on the wart, one half in the ground,
and at the end of the week dig up the latter; place on the wart with the
other half; bury again, and this will cure the wart.
_Greenfield, Mass._

885. Beans rubbed on a wart and thrown in the well will cure a wart.
_Maine._

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.
_Fr