Wart Treatment Folklore

Apple

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.

Dog

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.

Moon

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.

Zipper

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.