tick 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.
_Massachusetts._

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._

926. Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the
knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.
_Southern Indiana._

927. Kill a toad, and put its blood on the wart. The warts will go away
in three weeks.
_Marquette, Mich._

928. Warts are cured by tying a knot in a string for every wart, and
putting under the eaves of the house. The warts go as the string rots.
_Ohio._

929. Warts may be cured by applying to them water standing in the hollow
of an oaken stump.
_Boxford, Mass., and Ohio._

CHAPTER XIV.

WEATHER

COLD.

930. As the days begin to lengthen,
So the cold begins to strengthen.
_Northeastern United States and Canada._

931. Fire spitting sparks means cold weather.
_Patten, Me._

932. If the fire burns well, it is coming cold weather.
_General in the United States._

933. Fog in winter is always succeeded by cold and wind.

934. Plenty of hawberries foretell a "hard winter," _i.e._, they are to
serve as a store of food for birds.
_Canada._

935. Cold weather comes after the wind has blown over the oat stubble.
_Pennsylvania._

DAYS AND TIMES.

936. The first Tuesday after the new moon settles the weather for that
quarter.
_Newfoundland._

937. If it is a fair sunset Friday night, it will rain before Monday.
_Massachusetts._

938. If it storms on a Friday, it will storm again before the next Monday.
_Massachusetts and New York._

939. If the sun sets clear Friday night, it will not rain before Monday
night; but if it sets in a cloud, it will rain before Monday night.
_Boston, Mass._

940. The