CAUSES
11 entries in WARTS.
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- #872
Blood from the warts on a cow’s bag coming in contact with a person’s hands will cause warts to appear on them.
New Hampshire. - #873
Blood from a wart, especially if applied to the tongue, will cause warts to appear.
New Jersey. - #874
To count another person’s warts will cause them to appear on you.
General in the United States. - #875
If one counts stars while lying on his back, he will have as many warts as he has counted stars.
New York and Trenton, N. J. - #876
To drink the water in which eggs have been boiled will cause internal warts.
Miramichi, N. B. - #877
Washing the hands in water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts to grow.
Cape Breton and Eastern Massachusetts. - #878
Warts are caused by touching the white of an egg.
Salem, Mass. - #879
To touch the jelly-fish will cause warts.
Halifax, N. S., and parts of Eastern New England. - #880
Touching the excrescences that sometimes appear on trees will cause warts on the hand of the person who touches them.
New England. - #881
The handling of large species of toadstool, sometimes popularly called “wart-toadstool,” will cause warts to grow on the part of the hand coming in contact with it.
New Hampshire. - #882
The handling of a toad will cause warts to appear.
General in the United States.