Rub the wart with a stolen dish-cloth, and secrete the dish-cloth until it becomes mouldy and decays, then the wart is cured.
Bucks Co., Pa.

Rub the wart with a stolen dish-cloth, and secrete the dish-cloth until it becomes mouldy and decays, then the wart is cured.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 899.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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