A - APPLE
An apple should be quartered, one of the pieces rubbed on the wart and thrown away, and the remaining quarters buried.
B - BACON
Rub the wart with a piece of bacon before sunset and bury the meat before sunrise.
C - CORN
Seven grains of corn rubbed on your wart and buried seven inches in the ground.
D - DOG
Grease the wart with butter and let a dog lick off the butter.
E - ELDER
Strike the wart smartly with an elder twig, saying aloud, “All go away”. Then walk backwards towards the midden and throw the twig in without looking.
F - FINGERNAIL
Pare your finger-nails to the quick and rub them over your wart; then wait for them to grow out again.
G - GRAPEVINE
A piece of newly cut grapevine may be rubbed on your wart and buried.
H - HAZEL
If you make a notch in a hazel stick, rub the notch over your wart, and bury the stick.
H - HORSE
Tie a horsehair round your wart and every morning for nine days pull the knot tighter.
I - ICE
Rub a piece of ice on the wart until the piece of ice melts away.
J - JELLY
Spread some jelly on your wart five times a day. But make sure you wash your hands completely so that there is no trace of jelly left on your hands. Do this for seven days.
K - KALE
Wrap your wart with kale and then wait three or nine days. Remove the kale and then bury it.
L - LEMON
Rub the end of a lemon over your wart three times a day for three days.
M - MOON
A person says this rhyme while he rubs his wart and looks at the new moon:
"What I see is growing,
What I am rubbing is going."
Do this exactly at midnight on three successive nights.
N - NEEDLE
Scratch the wart with a needle until blood comes and bury the needle.
O - ONION
A rotten onion may be rubbed on a wart and buried.
P - PEA
Rub your wart with a green pea, then drop it in a well and walk away as you hear the pea hit the water.
Q - QUILT
Sleep with your favorite quilt for 30 days.
R - ROCK
Rub the wart with a rock picked up at midnight and then replace the rock in its original position.
S - SALIVA
Spit on your wart and rub the spit with your finger going round the wart three times in a circular motion.
T - TEETH
Each morning on getting up and before drinking or eating, rub your wart over your teeth; do this for nine mornings, then skip nine days, and repeat the process three times.
U - URINE
Let a toad wet on your wart.
V - VINEGAR
Put vinegar on the wart and on a penny at the same time. Wait for the copper to erode.
W - WATER
Bathe the wart in warm water from a rotten stump.
X - XEROX
Xerox your wart and fax it to someone you don’t like. Soon they will have a wart and you will not.
Y - YODEL
Go to the highest hill you can find. When you are on top of this hill yodel a song and then go back home.
Z - ZIPPER
Rub a wart on a zipper 3 times a day for 3 days.
Note: The unusual folklore as listed above is presented solely for fun and your information. It is not intended to be used for the treatment and prevention of warts.