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.
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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.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 912.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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