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Superstition #926

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.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 926.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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