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Superstition #884

Split a bean and put one half on the wart, one half in the ground, and at the end of the week dig up the latter; place on the wart with the other half; bury again, and this will cure the wart.

Greenfield, Mass.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 884.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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