When a person wishes to remove warts from his hand, cut as many notches on a stick as you have warts, and standing on a bridge, throw the stick over your left shoulder, and turn your head; they will go off before you leave the bridge.
Alabama.
Superstition #922
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 922.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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