Current superstitions : $b collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk
General
Current superstitions : $b collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk
Folklore -- England; Folklore -- United States
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._
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._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account