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 s