To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else.
Connecticut.

To cure warts: Cut your finger-nails and put them in the knothole of a tree; then stop up the hole, wishing the warts on to some one else.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 903.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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