anconia, 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
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