Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.
Southern Indiana.

Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 926.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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