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. Franconia, 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.
