Take as many joints of oat or wheat straw as a person has warts, and burn them under a stone. As the joints rot, the warts disappear. This is to be done by another for you.
Cape Breton.
Superstition #925
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 925.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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