Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-07-26
wAR1 AND CORN CURES.
SuperstitIous Notions That Pre-
vail in the Sunny South.

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one that an Old negro woman told mo
about long time ago"
Flows that?'
"She told me to remember some
morning early when | was gathering
beans in the swamp, and take bean
leaf and rub the wart smartly with the
rough side OF the leal. | was TO rub
the wart Just rs long as | could stand
it, and in week from that time, If |
hadn't told anybody about it, the wart
would go away
did you try itP'
Yes, sir. and that wart went away,
too
| never found but one remedy for
wart, said Mr. Oscar Hall "An old
negro woman gave me the recipe
when | was a little boy, and its the
only cure | ever found.
''She told me to go TO the corn-feld
some evening during the full Of the
moon and find an r of red corn. You
know the coo is red when the grain is
red. | was TO shuck and shell the ear
OF corn and then rub the wort with the
cob. | was TO look at the moon, and
not at the wart or the cob, and rub
just as hard and as long as | could
stand it. If took my eyes away from
the moon il would spoil the remedy.
When the wart became sore and sting
ing | was to throw down the cob and
in five days from that time the wart
would be gone. ~
How did it work."
Inside OF five DAYS the wart was
gone. had tried fifty remedies to get
rid Of that wart, ana nothing else had
ever done any good.
II never found but one thing that
could do any good for wart or
corn" said patrolman w. g. Cooper.
Whats tn ,t?"
"A SNAIL said the patrolman, SOL
emmy. There was an embarrassing
silence for little while, and then the
policeman continued:
Here one time | was digging pota-
soes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until just took of my shoe
and lay down on my back in grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and | was getting desperate
about it, when | noticed snail crawl
ing along near me. | remember red
what an old negro told me years be-
fore, and caught the snail and began
rubbing the corn with it, | broke the
shell and continued the rubbing until
the pain stopped. have never been
troubled with that corn from that day
to this, and before that il had troubled
me night and day for months It's the
only cure for cOrns, and it's a mighty
good remedy for warts too"
There's only one cure for wart,"
said Patroman Frank Christophine.
'What is it?"
"A darby told me about it, He said
70 remember some night when the
moon was full and 10 90 directly west.
Then | was TO stop, looking at the
moon all the time, and stoop down and
pick up whatever my hand happened
TO touch first. | remembered it one
night when | was going out Marietta
street. | stopped down, looking up at
the moon all the time, and picked up
a small stone. Then | rubbed the
wart until it began % bleed and then
threw down the stone. All the time |
was rubbing the wart | was still look
lug at the moon. In less than a week
from that night the wart was gone.
That was a regular old seed wart and
] had been trying TO get rid OF it for
long time. That's the only remedy |
ever found for warts.
zone time in Amer'cus,' said Sta
tionhouse Keeper John Joiner, Il saw
a strange wart cure tried.
How did il work?n
ut cured the warts. Ny son Char
ley was little fellow then, and both
hands were covered with warts One
day he was standing in front of the
store when a darley noticed the warts
and called Charley aside. "Do you
want cure?' asked the darkey. Yes
replied Charley, The negro gave
him a chew OF plug tobacco. Take
that said he, 'and run down the street
Just as hard as you can go until you
meet negro. Hand him the chew of
| tobacco. II ne chews it. you needn't
think anymore about it, The wart
/ will be gone inside OF a week. II the
darkey won't take it or wont chew il,
/ you must try it again. Take new
chew OF tobacco and ,un down the
/ street until you meet negro Don't
/ tell ANYBODY what I've told You until
( after the warts are gone. My boy
\ tried il. | saw him run down the
/ street and suddenly stop and hand
something 70 negro. | asked him
about it but ne said he couldn't tell.
| Five or six days afterward | happened
/ 10 notice that the warts were all gone
/ from his hands and called his attention
TO it. i had nearly forgotten that
said he and he told me about the
wart cure"
The best thing for warts" said Call
| Officer George Hamilton, lis 10 cut
( the vart with borrowed knife" Let
drop or two OF blood fall on white
piece OF paper, and then fold the pa
per up like note nd drop it in the
roa1 where somebody is almost GER
tain TO see it and pick il up In less
than a week from the time the note is
picked up your warts will be gone"
did you ever try it."
"Yes. sir. and il cured the warts"