925. Take as many joints of oat or wheat straw as a person has warts, and burn them under a stone. As the joints rot, the warts disappear. This is to be done by another for you.
Cape Breton.
926. Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.
Southern Indiana.
927. Kill a toad, and put its blood on the wart. The warts will go away in three weeks.
Marquette, Mich.
928. Warts are cured by tying a knot in a string for every wart, and putting under the eaves of the house. The warts go as the string rots.
Ohio.
929. Warts may be cured by applying to them water standing in the hollow of an oaken stump.