Warts 117
To cure a wart, rub it with a kernel of corn. Then throw the corn out in the dooryard, and if a chicken picks it up and eats it the wart will disappear.
Another way is to steal a piece of pork to rub the wart with. To do this so that its use will be effective, you must visit a neighbor’s cellar, and abstract the meat from his pork-barrel without his being aware of it.
To make your warts go off, rub them with sassafras.
To cure a wart, rub it with a corn, bore a hole in a tree, put the corn in the hole, and then plug it in. Your wart will make haste to leave you when you have done this.
Put vinegar on a cent, and let it corrode. Then put the vinegar on your wart, and the wart will leave.
Does that wart still trouble you? Find a snail, rub the wart with it, and throw the snail away. When the snail dries up and withers into nothing, the wart will have gone too.
There are many ways recommended for getting rid of warts, but very few ways are suggested by which one can acquire them, One sure method to get warts is to wash your hands in water that eggs have been boiled in.
