Warts are cured by stealing pork from the family barrel of salted pork, rubbing the warts with it, and throwing it into the road. The person who picks it up gets the warts.
Bruynswick, N. Y.
Superstition #901
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 901.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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