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.
898 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.