Rub the wart with rock-salt till it bleeds, and throw a lump of salt in the fire; if it crackles and snaps out of the fire, the wart will get well; if not, not.
Central Maine.
Superstition #919
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 919.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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