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Superstition #912

If you have warts, walk nine steps backward with your eyes shut, having just picked up a pebble with which rub the wart, and throw it away.

Fort Worth, Tex.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 912.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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