Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-22
TO REMOVE WARTS.
THE suPERsTIrioUs NOTIONS CON
cERNlNG THE PESTS.

|
.CERNING THE PESTS.
/ the Troublesome visitors-Chaxms OF An
| sosts-Absurd Beliefs-stray Bits Of
Folk Lore.
| Warts are especially undesirable pos
sessions: although it has been thought
| that the presence of one on the right
hand would Insure riches to tbs lucky
person having it, Various means OF nd
| ding ones self of these troublesome WIS.,
| iters are On record, and some OF them are
! sufficiently curious to merit mention
They may be banished. say soEae, by
merely wishing them gone. 1he hreton
peasant passes his hands over them
makes the sign of the cross, and bids
| them 20 in Gods uRne. In Deux Sevres
you must pinch them each time you think
of them, and say, "One J. In Lusatia.
when YOU see funeral pass. say, Thou.
thou! in the name of the Father, Son and
Holy Ghostr' Or, when two carriages s,a e,
pass. saw. .'Get out get Quit" The
Troublesome waits viii follow the process
| sion. A funeral procession is utilized in
ireland by saving. May these warts and
this CORPSE pass away and never more re-
| turn. Ia the name" etc. The warts
must be rubbed with the hand during
| this time.
| In Lancashire, the warts may be rubbed
with a cinder. which must then be
wrapped in paper and dropped at cross
roads Whosoever picks it up will get
| the warts. In Lusatia, certain marine
petrifactions picked up on the beach are
used in the same way, With the addition
| of the formula, I'm the name OF the
| Father" etc. In Lower Brittany, small
buttons arc made of slate, and the credu-
| lous peasants count out as many as the
number of their warts, inciose them in
| paper, to look like roll of pennies, and
| throw this away on the first road. beiiey-
! Ing that the person who shall pick up
the deceptive package Will take the warts
| with him In Deux Sevres, as many
pebbles as there are warts are placed IN "a
cavity In the wall, in the hopes that some
one will get them and the warts
have heard, when boy, that piece
| of beef would cause them to disappear, II
they are rubbed with it, and the beef
buried There are many variations IN
this remedy in various parts of the world
1t is, perhaps, the most popular cure OF
oil those given. In Northumberland.
Devonshire and Lancashire the beef
should be stolen, and i'll Deux Sevres, two
pieces must be used, and then tied TO-
gether. In Lancashire, it is not buried,
but must be carefully nailed up on gaAe
post at point where four lanes END, OF
any other secure pace, and suffered TO
decay. In Deyonshire. the beef must be
thrown over a wall and your left shoulder
at the same time.
In Scotland, stolen bacon is necessary
and lard from male pig in the Vosges
mountains, buried deep in the ground.
In Lower Brittany, you must steal piece
of lard from your neighbor's chimney
taking care not to get caught at 1t, rub
the warts with it, and put it in q manure
pile Norman peasants use pork r1nd,
and put it In nut In the road; when
carriage passes over it, cure Is insured,
|. In Vivarais, France, rub with the
down of the broom plant, and throw it
over YOUR shoulder into the road. Peas
or beans are employed in many places. In
UDper Brittany, the warts must be rubbed
with small peas, WHICH are then cast into
a we'll or fountain AS lIhey rot, the warts
will disappear In the Vosges noun
tains, you may take as many peas as there
are warts, and cast them on the nre, tax
ing care to run away SO as not 10 Aear
them explode.
In Buckinghamshire the favorite pre-
scription is to rub the warts with peas.
one for each wart, and then wrap the
peas in paper and throw them away d
leaf of cabbage picked up on the road Is
used in Lower Brittany. Eub the warts
with it. and put it just where you found
it, fastening away without looking be-
hind. In England piece of sour apple
will perform q cure, and in Deux Seyres,
blood from wart is dropped inside an
apple, but in a peculiar way, and then
allowed to rot In Northumberland, you
must rub with the black snail nine nights
in succession, and then inpale the ami
nal on thorn hedge. In Lower Brittany,
a large snail must be rolled over the
warts, and then impaled on wheat
stalk as high as possible.
Ii the Vosges, knots are tied ina string,
one for each wart, and the string thrown
over the shoulder, without looking to see
what becomes of it. Others say to put
the string under stone which you may
not be able to find again. or under the pa
ternal roof tiles. In one part Of England,
each wart must be touched with its knot,
and the string buried in q moist place,
while the formula, There is none to re-
deem it besides thee" is repeated. In
Lusatia, stalks Of grain, containing as
many knots as there are warts, are used,
passing each knot three times over them
and saying: I'm the name Of the Father"
etc. Ia LOrient, the straw is buried to
rot. In Scotland, rye stalks are neces-
sary, and they must be wrapped in cloth
and put secretly away. In Oxford,
potched stick was substitUted.-F. 3
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