50 Ways Our Grandparents Used to Make Warts Go Away =================================================== Simple and Easy: -Buy five cents worth of candy and eat it all. -Rub with dandelion juice. -Rub seven times with a gold ring. -Wash your hands in water used to boil potatoes. -Count them each night for nine nights. -Give a pin to a girl who is not related to you. -Give your warts names, and think good things about them. -Sell the wart to somebody and don't spend the money. -Point your finger at it and say "Tige" three times. -Rub it on St. Abdon's Day (July 30). -Rub it with the sole of your shoe. -Wish your wats onto a gray horse's backside. -Cross two pins over a wart then hide them. -Wrap a pea in a rag and throw it down a well. Bizarre and Complicated: -Put as many stones as you have warts in a bag and toss it over your onto a road; whoever picks up the bag will get the warts. -Find a bone, turn it over, then throw it away; walk off without looking back. -Have a child who has never seen its father breathe on it. -Cut an apple in half, rub each half over th wart, tie the halves together, and throw them away. -Rub it with coffee grounds, put the grounds in a bag, and bury it. -Rub it with seven kernels of corn, then feed the corn to your neighbor's chickens. -Look at the new moon and rub the wart three times, saying "You grow and you go" each time. -Write a wish on a piece of paper, go to a crossroads, then tear it up and scatter it to the wind. -When you see the new moon, pick up any object on which your foot rests and rub it on the wart; then walk backwards ten steps and throw it over your right shoulder. -Without telling anyone, pick up a stone at midnight, spit on it, then put it on a rafter in the attic; after eight weeks, turn it over. Faintly Repellent: -Prick the wart with a pin, put the blood on a cloth, and drop it in the path of a stranger; if he picks it up, he gets the wart. -Tie a dog's hair very tightly around the wart. -Rub it with a fish. -Make the wart bleed, smear blood on a bean leaf, hide it under a stone, and walk away backwards. -Wait until someone dies, then go to the graveyard at midnight and call to the devil; he will take your warts away. -Kiss the wart, then kiss someone else. -Rub it with a pebble, then toss the pebble into an open grave. -Rub it with a chicken foot. -Rush up and seize the person with a wart, then spit on it. -Lick the wart when you awaken, before eating or drinking. Extremely Disgusting: -Rub it with cow urine. -Rub it with chicken intestines. -Rub it with a snail. -Rub it with a rooster's head. -Cover it with cow manure. -Mash ants on it. -Rub it with dirt from a new grave. Downright Criminal: -Wish you warts on someone whose name you know, but whom you've never met. -Rub stolen meat on it, then bury the meat. -Steal a dishcloth and hide it. -Steal a piece of chalk, rub it on the wart, then throw it away. -Kill a black cat, take it to a graveyard at midnight, rub it on the wart. -Wash the wart in the blood of a black cat killed in the light of the moon. -Rub it with the hand of a corpse. -Rub it with dead man's spit. [Taken for the 1989 Farmer's Almanac]ÿ