Condition
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Method Of Treatment
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performed - seventh son can rub away if
he takes on money
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performed - healer (farmer) can rub
warts off
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applied - stolen salt pork
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performed, grain of corn
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performed - stolen dish rag
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performed, horsehair
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performed - tie knots in hair in number
of warts, throw hair away
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inhaled - raw meat; discard
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applied - raw tomato
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performed - sell warts
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performed - rub blood of dead cat
(killed by African-American) on warts during full moon
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applied - freshly cut steak performed -
turn around three times; tell warts to leave
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applied - raw potato
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applied - dishrag performed - bury
dishrag in manure
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performed - tie knots in black silk
thread for each wart; give thread to charmer for burial
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performed - put two dozen small pebbles
in can; set can in middle of road
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performed - sell warts
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applied - castor oil
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applied - castor oil for nine days
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performed - tie as many knots in a
string as you have warts
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performed - wash hands in March snow
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performed - rub on Abdon’s day (July
29 or 30).
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performed - sell for cent; discard cent
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applied - ink
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performed - apply and bury a dishrag
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applied - urine
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applied - green pea performed - wrap pea
neatly in piece of paper; tie paper with string; throw bundle away
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applied - healer’s touch
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applied - urine
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performed - bury a dead cat at night
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performed - cut head off chicken and
pinch wart off with beak
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applied - dandelion juice
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performed - apply and bury an apple
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applied - bean
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performed - bury under downspout
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performed - cut notches, apply blood,
throw stick over left shoulder.
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applied - bacon fat.
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applied - castor oil
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performed - bury dishrag under eaves.
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performed - sell them
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applied - penny, blood
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performed - apply water from slake tub
and saying something.
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applied - lunar caustic
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performed - from bayou bridge, throw
grains of corn over left shoulder
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performed - tie knot in string for each
wart; bury string at crossroads
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performed - tie string around warts;
have someone remove and bury string
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applied - half a potato; bury potato
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performed - put as many cords under rock
as you have warts
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performed - write number of warts on
piece of paper; wrap paper in stolen dish cloth; discard cloth and paper
on road
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applied - stolen beef; bury beef under
eaves of house
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performed - transfer to animal plant or
another person.
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seventh son of a seventh son
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Pow-wow healer
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applied - yellow substance from Spanish
fly’s stomach
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Treatment inspiring hope and confidence
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applied - barley straw performed - tie
barley straw with horse’s tail hair (or silk); hide straw in place where
it will rot
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applied - bean leaves, bury the leaf
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applied - hot ashes
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performed - elaborate ritual
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performed - laying on of hands
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applied - castor oil
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applied = strong acetic acid
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applied - bean shell
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applied - chicken blood
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chicken blood
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applied - cheese performed - bury cheese
secretly
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performed - count your warts but don’t
tell anybody how many you have.
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applied - dishcloth
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applied - cow’s urine
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applied - grounds from borrowed coffee
pot performed - bury grounds
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performed - induce light state of
hypnosis (suggestion)
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performed - lick
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performed - recite nonsense verse over
warts
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performed - rub with a dishrag and bury
it
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applied - fish head
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performed - wave hand over it, repeat
some words, spit on it and rub hands over it.
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applied - foxes testicles
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performed - put knots in wheat and bury
it.
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performed - tie knots
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applied - meat.
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performed - cut notch for each wart on
living twig
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performed - place three grains of corn
at crossroads with three branches (one grain of corn at each branch);
cover with rocks
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applied - potato performed - bury potato
under eaves
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performed - constant rubbing
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performed - steal meat, secret burial
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performed - notch-cutting
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performed - wrap pebble in box in paper
and leave in conspicuous place
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applied Salt Pork Paper Performed
Discard Paper
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Peas.
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performed - Rub the wart with the pea
three times and turning towards the sun- spit. Then throw the pea into the
fire.
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applied - Salt; performed - Bore hole in
tree, put salt in it and plug up hole.
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applied
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performed - recite nonsense rhymes
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applied - raw potato
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performed - rub warts with a penny and
give it to someone
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performed - throw meat over your
shoulder.
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performed - rub something against wart
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applied - spittle
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performed - make knots in thread, place
thread in coffin with corpse in state
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performed - rub crosswise with sewing
thread drenched with sour clover, burn thread under threshold
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applied - black slugs
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performed - elaborate ritual
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performed - sell them to someone else
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applied - An old shoe from a certain
person.
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performed - cut as many notches in a
stick as you have warts, hide stick
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performed - put salt under laundry
stone.
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applied - bitten off growing sloe
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performed - bury a short, white string
in the ground at night
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performed - don’t handle toad or frog
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Watercress
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applied - dung water
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ingested - lime water
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performed - Pick the warts until they
bleed, apply wood, wipe them free of blood. Close the eyes and throw the
wood away.
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performed - bathe in moonshine water.
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performed - cat burial in graveyard
applied - raw potato worn - spider around neck in nutshell
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performed - counting, gaze of wart
charmer
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performed - recite charm
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ingested - dried and powdered
steer-shank warts in wine or liquor
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performed - prick warts until they
bleed; touch warts with grain of corn; bury corn
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performed - lay a black cat that has
been dead for three days behind a tombstone at midnight
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performed - put clod of dirt in a box
for every wart, leave box by a road and wait for someone to pick up box
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applied - cloth performed - throw cloth
away
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applied - lemon juice
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applied - dishrag, then buried.
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healer, performed
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performed - put blood from wart on
handkerchief and throw it away
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performed - in light of moon say,
“what I see increase, what I feel decrease.”
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performed - put rag under log.
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applied - peach leaves performed - leaf
burial under rock
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performed - rub potato on warts, bury
potato under light of the full moon
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performed - bury potato
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applied - poison oak, radish, marigold.
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applied - penny.
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Stagnated water from old tree stump
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performed
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applied - washcloth
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applied - Castor oil.
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applied - white vinegar
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performed - bury dishtowel in backyard
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performed - wash warts with clean wash
cloth; bury cloth in ground
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performed - tie white silk thread around
wart; recite charm
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performed - tie string around wart;
recite magic words; remove string; throw away string
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performed - bay at moon like dog
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applied - wedding ring
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applied - pig urine
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performed - apply polish, peel off.
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performed - spit on them
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performed - wish onto someone
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performed - apply and bury onion
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applied - bean
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performed - rub wart with a penny, give
to patient
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performed - You can get rid of warts by
selling them to another person.
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performed - bury dish rag
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performed - apply and bury a dishrag.
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performed - apply and bury a potato
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applied - bone
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performed - cut notches into sappy limb
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performed - tie a string around a
sapling
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performed - have a grasshopper spit
tobacco juice on warts
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performed - tell an old lady how many
warts you have and how old you are
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performed - send them to the VooDoo
doctor
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performed - march around an old stump
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performed - ritual with a frog and
cricket
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performed - sell warts
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performed - sell warts to a stranger for
a penny
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performed - healer recited Bible
passages
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performed - have family member wish
warts off
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performed - money
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performed, applied - toad blood
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applied - corn cob’s white pulp
center, vinegar, soda
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performed - stolen dish rag
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applied - salt, horse licking
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performed - tie strings around warts,
discard strings
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applied - meatskin; discard
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applied - snap bean (string bean)
leaves; walk backward five steps; bury leaves; never look back
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performed - Count the number of warts
you have, and get an equal number of gravels, put them into a cloth and
tie them up; then throw it into the road where the horses will travel over
them
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applied - first squirt of cow’s milk
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applied - dandelion juice
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performed - purchase of warts; wrap
thread around wart, tied with single knot; remove thread; hit thread
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performed - hold hands (palms up) to
moon
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performed - sell wart; rub wart
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applied - molasses
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applied - grease with castor oil
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performed - tie as many knots in a
string as you have warts and hide string under doorstep
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performed - wash warts in stump water
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performed - steal a dishrag, wipe the
warts, and bury the rag, all without telling anyone
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applied - buy warts by taking a cent and
rubbing it over them
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applied - wash with washrag with which
corpse was washed; bury rag
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performed - recite powwowing formula
(charm)
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applied - eggplant; throw eggplant over
shoulder; don’t look back
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applied - milkweed.
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performed - cut knotches in a peach
tree.
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applied - beans performed - recite magic
words
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performed - hide dirty dishtowel on west
side of house
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performed - knot stick with number of
warts; throw stick over shoulder
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applied - bloody end of decapated
chicken head
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applied - mashed toad.
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applied - flower of goldenrod
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applied - bean
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performed - throw corn over shoulder
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performed - cut notches in a stick, bury
where water drips.
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performed - apply and bury meat.
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applied - castor oil, salt
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performed - apply and bury a dishcloth
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performed - apply and bury dishrag
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performed - bury a dishtowel under a
drain.
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worn - thread
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performed - say a verse from the bible
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performed - by bewitched woman
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performed - throw stones, bag over
shoulder into road.
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performed - have someone count your
warts.
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performed - prick warts, bleed on grains
of corn, feed corn to chickens
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applied - muriatic acid
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performed - tie knots in string, bury
string in damp spot under bridge
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performed - bury dish-cloth
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applied - rainwater dripping from a gate
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applied - seven grains of corn; feed
cords to neighbor’s chickens
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performed - cut notches in stick in
number of warts; bury stick
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applied - stolen bacon; bury bacon
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performed - let grasshopper bite warts
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applied - corpse’s hand; afterbirth;
bone from carcass; toad
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applied - Earth worm oil.
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applied - coltrado
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performed - psychotherapeutic treatment
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performed - wrap up parcel with as many
grains of barley as warts; lay parcel on public road
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applied - bean, then bury bean halves
under drip of the house for 7 days
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applied - three bean leaves
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performed - magical treatment
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performed - bury stolen bacon between
two bricks
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applied - stolen bacon performed - hide
bacon
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performed - make chalk mark on oven door
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greater celandine (wartflower)
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applied - ashes from a burned broom
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applied - unsalted raw beef; performed -
bury beef
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performed - put one small drop of
glacial acetic acid.
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performed - count warts; rub one bean
over each wart (as many beans as warts); throw beans over left shoulder;
do this all secretly
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performed - throw a bone over your left
shoulder
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performed - cut an apple into three
pieces and touch the wart then throw it to rot.
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applied - finger of corpse
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applied - juice of “cat’s milk”
weed
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performed - count your warts but don’t
tell anybody how many you have.
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performed - rub with dishrag and bury
the rag.
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performed - rub with dishrag and bury
the rag.
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performed - rub with a smooth old bone.
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applied - cow’s urine
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performed - sell warts to someone for a
small coin
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applied - eel’s blood
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applied - black fluid from
grasshopper’s bite
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performed - hangman rubs patient
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applied - nut blossoms
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applied
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healer, performed
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applied - dishrag; performed - bury
dishrag
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performed - wash hands by moonbeams in
silver basin
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applied - goat butter
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performed - spear wart with straw of
grain, then bury it.
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performed - tie knots in horsehair.
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performed - cut notch for each wart on
living root
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applied - corn (belonging to family or
stolen)
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applied - potato; performed - bury
potato
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performed - rub wart
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performed - notch-cutting applied -
peach notch performed - tree limb burial
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applied - performed - leave a clutch of
small objects to be picked up by another
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applied Pork rind Performed hide pork
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applied - Garden pea.
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applied - white peas; performed - throw
peas into fire
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performed - buy wart
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applied - powder of dried mullein roots
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potatoes
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performed - rub warts with a penny and
give it to someone
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applied - penny
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performed - treat warts on July 30
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performed - stick black snail on thorn,
put between two stones
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applied - snail; performed - impale
snail on thorn
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applied - grandfather’s fasting
spittle
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performed - make knots in thread, bury
thread
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performed - make knots in thread, bury
thread
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applied - Fasting spittle.
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performed - tie knots in string, bury
string
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performed - Rub with silk threads.
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performed - tie knots in thread, bury
thread
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performed - tie knots in string (one for
each wart), bury string under stone
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performed - tie as many knots in string
as you have warts, bury string
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applied - tobacco spit from God-fearing
man’s tobacco
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performed - tie knot in string, bury
string under eaves
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performed - knot ritual
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performed - throw knotted worsted into
lavatory.
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performed - Notch a piece of wood, rub
warts with wood, and bury it
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applied - water on which moon has shone
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performed - transference
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applied - dew collected on tombstone
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performed - cut as many notches in a
green stick as you have warts, then bury the stick
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applied - water from baptize fount.
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performed - tie knots in twine, touch
with twine, throw twine behind your back
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applied - saliva
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performed - bringing hen to healers
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applied - corpse
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performed - shouting “I got the sty,
its a lie.”
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applied - bacon rind performed - bury
bacon
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applied - Castor oil
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applied - castor oil
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applied - wart
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performed - bury a black cat in
graveyard at midnight.
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performed - charmer circles evergreen
tree saying, “I charm this wart (growth or mole) from John Doe’s
arm.”
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applied - soiled dish cloth performed -
bury cloth
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performed - steal a neighbor’s
dishcloth
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performed - bury a dishrag
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applied - cobweb performed - burn cobweb
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applied - lemon juice
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applied - stolen dishrag [from one’s
mother], pebble tied in it, hidden.
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applied - stolen dishrag, then buried.
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performed - rub while incanting wish to
have them off
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performed - burial of dishrag
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performed - pebbled placed at crossroads
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applied - potato eye performed - potato
burial
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applied - potato performed - Potato
planting
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performed - rub potato on warts, throw
potato over your shoulder
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performed - bury an old rag
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worn - brown paper
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performed - Tie silk thread around wart.
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performed
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performed - bury straw
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applied - meat performed - bury meat in
garden
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applied - strong vinegar
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performed - spit in hand; rub match head
in palm; rub match head on wart
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applied - piece of meat stolen while
being cut performed - secretly bury meat
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performed - bury stolen pork chop
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performed - bury old dishrag in ground
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performed - tie red silk thread around
wart at bedtime
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performed - tie string around wart;
close eyes; make wish; throw string in street
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performed - wash hands in moonbeams
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applied - gold ring
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applied - eggplant
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applied - olive leaf, then bury leaf
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applied - wagon wheel grease
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performed - suck warts
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applied - buttermilk
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applied - white bean
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performed - give the patient a coin
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applied - castor oil.
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applied - milkweed
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applied - chicken liver, performed -
bury in corral
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performed - steal bacon, apply to wart,
bury rind under eaves of neighboring house
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performed - put corn under a stone at an
intersection
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performed - spit on a stone for each
wart
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a legitimate son or daughter who has
never seen his or her father has the ability to remove warts.
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performed - by a man with special
talents
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worn - eye of a frog
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applied - potato
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applied - buttermilk and soda
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applied - box of sand wrapped like a
present; discard box at crossroads
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applied - rub with twig; discard twig
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performed - Old Negro man talked them
off
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performed - healer (grandfather) places
hands on wart
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performed, finger-nails
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performed - tying knots in string
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applied - dish rag
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performed, count
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worn - tie string around warts, hang
string on wall
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applied - white beans on warts, stick
beans in mud
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performed - cut rooster’s foot; put
blood on corn; rub corn on wart; feed corn to rooster
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performed - plant peas in number of
warts in rich soil
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performed - put blood from warts on
seven little sticks; put sticks under eaves
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performed - Steal your neighbor's
dishrag, and wash your hands with it thoroughly. Bury the dishrag a long
way off, don't look back, forget it,
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performed - tie gravel in cloth and
throw over right shoulder at crossroads
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performed - Prick your warts with a pin
until they bleed; then throw the pin away over your shoulder and walk away
without looking back.
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applied - cow urine
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performed - find bone; rub wart with
bone; lay bone down exactly as found
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performed - put needle through black
thread and wart; burn thread
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performed - charm warts; buy wart
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applied - mud packs
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applied - lining of chicken gizzard;
have somebody bury gizzard under eaves secretly
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performed - place leather with holes in
it over the warts; fill holes with sulphur and set sulphur afire
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performed - wash warts in stump water
often
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performed - steal your mother's
dishcloth and rub it on your warts, and then return it without your
mother's knowing it
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applied - fasting spittle
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performed - tie string around warts
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performed - apply blood to bean and
throw into a vacant house.
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performed - name beans, apply to warts,
throw into a well.
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performed - apply soot, sit in corner,
apply knotted string, apply soot to knots, bury string.
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performed - sprout seed beans
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applied - potato (without eyes)
performed - bury potato secretly
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applied - match performed - bury match
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performed - count warts; cut dirty
dishrags into same number of pieces; bury pieces of dishrag
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applied - goat’s milk
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performed - wrap in a dish rag and bury
a dead cat.
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performed - rub with head of freshly
killed chicken, bury head.
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applied - urine
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applied - all eight surfaces of a
quartered apple.
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performed - drop a kernel of corn in
well.
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applied - potato
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potato peelings
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performed - cut notch |