Take an equal
amount of brown soap and spit, mix the two together, and make a
plaster. Apply it on the warts and leave it 24 hours. When removed,
the warts and roots will come off.
Make the wart
bleed. Put one drop of blood on seven grains of corn. Feed the corn
to an old black hen.
Tie a human
hair around the wart and leave it in place for several days. Remove
the hair and place it in a nail hole in a green tree. Replace the
nail, driving it into the hair so it will be stuck in the tree.
When the hair rots, the wart will disappear.
Put a drop
of milkweed juice on a wart or rub a piece of wild turnip on the
wart several times.
Gather the
roots of pokeweed. Fry them in hot grease. Apply the grease to the
wart. After four or five applications, the wart should come off.
Rub an old
bone on the wart and throw it over your shoulder.
Sit in a cemetery
for three nights in a row. Then find a fresh grave and put flowers
on it while wishing that your warts will disappear. Two weeks later,
they will.
Karla Shearer
of Houston told us this story: "I had a Cajun friend from Fannett,
Texas, who told me the best way to cure warts was to 'buy them off
someone.' She said she'd had warts as a child and her aunt asked
her if she could 'buy them warts.' My friend said the aunt gave
her a quarter for the warts and they were gone in a week." Karla
later tried to buy warts off her daughter, but it did not work.
She said she probably jinxed the cure by first telling her daughter
of the story.
