Split a pea and rub the wart with both pieces, make a wish that some person shall get the wart, throw one piece over one shoulder and the other over the other (into the river), and the wart will go to the person wished.
Miramichi, N. B.
Superstition #906
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 906.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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