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| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
TO CURE A WART, SPIT ON IT AND IT WILL DISAPPEAR.
Submitter comment: FROM HIS MOTHER, MRS. SCHMIDT, OF GERMAN DESCENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001964 SUMMER
IF A PERSON HAS A WART HE IS TO PLACE A THIN SLICE OF FELS
NAPTHA SOAP ON IT AND COVER THE AREA WITH A BANDAGE. THIS
WILL REMOVE THE WART.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
James Callow Keyword(s): POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
A GOOD METHOD OF CURING A WART IS TO WEAR A GAUZE BANDAID
OVER THE WART FOR THREE WEEKS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): BANDAGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1967
IN ORDER TO RID YOURSELF OF A WART THE FOLLOWING IS NECESSARY.
EACH MORNING BEFORE BRUSHING YOUR TEETH PLACE SOME OF YOUR
SALIVA ON THE WART. THE WART WILL DISAPPEAR IN TWO WEEKS.
Submitter comment:
MR. MOORE ACTUALLY DOES THIS IN ORDER TO RID HIMSELF OF A
WART AND CLAIMS THAT IT WORKS.
Where learned: NEW YORK CITY ; NEW YORK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-28-1970
CURE FOR WARTS: TAKE A PIECE OF STRING AND FOR EACH WART, TIE
THREE KNOTS IN THE STRING AND RUB THE STRING OVER THE WART.
THEN FIND A RAINSPOUT WHERE WATER FREQUENTLY DRAINS AND BURY
THE STRING UNDER THIS AREA. WHEN THE STRING ROTS AWAY THE
WARTS WILL BE GONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-22-1972
WHEN YOU HAVE A WART (WHICH YOU GET BY CONTACT WITH FROGS)
YOU CAN RELIEVE YOURSELF OF IT BY BURYING A POTATO IN THE
GROUND.
Submitter comment:
MISS BALDWIN LEARNED THIS FROM HER GRANDMOTHER, MRS. JOHN
BARDEN, OF BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 12-00-1963
WARTS RUBBED WITH THE URINE FROM A TOAD WILL DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
YOU BURY A TOAD IN ORDER TO GET RID OF WARTS.
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-11-1968
IF YOU HAVE A WART, EVERY TIME YOU LOOK AT IT CALL IT
"FRIDAY" AND IT WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 01-00-1968
IF YOU WALK A BABY AROUND A DINING ROOM TABLE ON SUNDAY
MORNING DURING MASS, YOU WILL REMOVE ITS WARTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-16-1970
TO GET RID OF WARTS, COOK BAKED BEANS ALL NIGHT. THEN KEEP
THE JUICE AND BOIL IT UNTIL IT IS LIKE MOLASSES. THEN
APPLY IT TO THE WARTS.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-15-1970
IN THE OLD COUNTRY THEY CURED WARTS BY THROWING BEANS IN A
FIRE AND REPEATED A SECRET FORMULA SOMETHING LIKE WART,
WART, GO AWAY.
Where learned: HUNGARY
James Callow Keyword(s): INCANTATION ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1918
RUB A DIRTY PENNY ON A WART, IT WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 01-26-1968
RUB AN ONION ON A WART; BURY THE ONION WHERE WATER WILL DRIP
ON IT. THE ONION WILL ROT AND THE WART WILL DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; BIRMINGHAM
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-22-1968
TO REMOVE A WART, ONE WOULD PLANT AN ONION UNDER A RAINSPOUT
WITHOUT ANYONE SEEING YOU AND BY THE TIME THE ONION HAD ROTTED
AWAY, THE WART WOULD BE GONE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 01-20-1970
BURY AN ONION AND GET RID OF WARTS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-15-1967
IF YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A WART, YOU TAKE AN ONION AND SLICE IT
IN HALF. YOU TAKE ONE HALF OF THE ONION AND RUB THE WART
WITH IT. THEN MAKING SURE NO ONE SEES YOU, YOU TAKE THAT
HALF OF THE ONION AND HIDE IT WHERE NO ONE WILL EVER FIND
IT BUT YOURSELF. WHEN THAT HALF OF THE ONION DECAYS, YOUR
WART WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-04-1969
TO REMOVE A WART, APPLY THE WATER THAT FORMS ON A WINDOW
FROM THE MOISTURE (IN THE AIR). THIS WATER WILL MAKE
THE WART DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-25-1970
IF YOU BUY A PIECE OF PORK RIND, YOUR WARTS WILL GO AWAY.
AS THE PORK ROTS, SO DOES THE WART.
Where learned: DETROIT ; MICHIGAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-15-1970