, 1889-06-07
CURES FOR WARTS AND coRNs.
superstitious Notions That Prevail In the
Sunny South

Sunny South
The best cure on earth for a wart"
said Capt Mercer a few days ago, sis
one that an old negro woman told me
about a long time ago"
"How's that7"
She told me TO remember some
morning early, when / was gathering
beans in the swamp, and take a bean
leaf and rub the wart smartIy with the
rough side of the Leaf. / was to rub
ehe wart just as long as ] could stand
IL and in a week from that time, if /
hadn't told anybody about it, the wart
would go away"
Did you try itf'
Yes, sir. and that wart went away,
too"
II never found but one remedy for
n wart" said Mr.. Oscar Hall. IAN
old negro woman gave me the recipe
when ! vas a little boy, and it's the
only cureI ever found.
She told me TO go TO the cornfield
some evening during the full Of the
moon and find an ear of red corn. You
know the cob is red when the grain is
red. | was to shock and shell the ear
Of corn and then rub the wart with the
cob. | was to look at the moon, not
Mt the wart or the cob, and rub Just as
hard and rs long as / could stand it
II took my eyes away from the moor
il would spoil the remedy. When the
wart became sore and singing l was
TO throw down the cob, and in five
days from that time the wart would
DO gone"
How did it work."
Inside of five days the wart WINS
gone. ! had tried fifty remedies to get
rid of hat wart, and nothing else had
done any good"
II nover found but one thing that
could do any good for n wart or corn"
said Patrolman w. G.. Cooper.
Whats thnti"
"a snail, " said the patrolman, sol
emily.
There was an embarrassing silence
for n little while, and then the police
man continued:
Here one time l was digging pota-
toes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until l just took off my shoe
and lay down on my back in a grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and l was getting desperate
about il, when / noticed q snail crawl
ing along near me. i remembered
what an old negro told me years be-
fore, and caught the snail and began
rubbing the corn with it. l broke the
shell and continued the rubbing until
the pain stopped. l have never been
troubled with hat corn from that day
10 this, and before that ii had troubled
mo highland day for months. It's the
only curo for corns, and it's n mighty
good remedy for warts, too"
There's only cure for n wart,"
said Pntrolman Frank Christophine.
what isit7"
"a darky told me about il. He said
TO remember some night when the
moon was full and TO go directly west
Then l was to stop, looking at the
moon all the time, and stoop down
and pick up whatever my hand hap
pened To touch first. / remembered II
one night when l was going out Mari
eta street. i stopped down, looking up
at the moon all the time, and picked
up n small stone. Then / rubbed the
wart until il began to bleed and then
threw down the stone. All the time i
was rubbing the WAIT / was still look
ing at the oon In less than a week
from that night the wart wns gone.
That was u regular old seed wart, and
! had been trying TO get rid Of it for q
long time. That's the only remedy l
ever found for warts"
Ono timo in Americas" said Sta
ton House Keeper John Joiner, II saw
n strange wart cure tri ed"
How did il work."
1T cured the warts. My son Char
ley was II little fellow then, and both
hands were covered with warts. Ono
day he was standing in front of the
door when a darby noticed the warts
and called Charley aside. DO you
want a curel' asked the darky. Yes
said Charley. The negro gave him a
chew of plug tobacco. Take that
said he, and run down tho street just
as fas: as you al go until you meet a
negro. Hand him tho chew of tobacco.
If he chows ii you needn't think any
thing about it The wart will be gone
inside n week. If tho darby won't
take it, or won't chew it, you must
try it again. Take n new chew of to-
bacco and run down tho street until
you meet n negro. Don't tell anybody
what Two told you until the warts are
gone My boy tried it / saw him
run down the street and suddenly stop
and hand something TO a negro. l
asked him about il, but he said he
couldn't tell. Five or six days after
ward happened TO notice that the
warts were all gone from his hands,
and called his attention to it. L had
nearly forgotten that, said he, and he
told me about the wart cure"
The best thing for warts, " said Call
Officer George Hamilton, sis 10 cut
the wart with n borrowed knife. Let
n drop or two of blood fall on n white
piece of paper and then fold up the
paper like n noto and drop it in the
road where somebody is almost GER
tain o sec it and pick it up. In less
than a week from the time tho note is
picked up your wart will be gone"
Did you ever try it'll"
Yes, sir, and it cured the warts."-
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