The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1889-07-18
CURE FOR WARTS AND coRNs.
Superstitious Notions That Prevailed in.
the Sunny South.


the Sunny South.
"The best cure on earth for war;" "
said Capt Mercer a few days ago, sis
one that an old negro woman told me
about a long time ago"
''How's that?n
''She told me to rememb Der 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 leaf. was to
rub the wart just as long as could
stand it, and in week from that time,
if l hadn't told anybody about it, the
wart would go away"
did you try it?"
Yes, sir, and that wart went away,
too"
Il never found but one remedy for
a wart," said Mr.. Oscar Halt. IAN
old negro woman gave me the recipe
when l was a little boy, and it's the
only cure l ever found.
''She told me to 60 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
she'll the ear of corn and then rub the
wart with the cob. Twas to look at the
moon, not at the wart or the cob, and
rub just as hard and long as l could
stand it. If l took my eyes away
from the moon it 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 be gone"
"How did it workP"
''Inside of five days the wart was
gone. l had tried fifty remedies to
get rid of that wart, and nothing else
had ever done any good"
81 never found but one thing that
could do any good fora wart or corn"
said Patrolman w. G. Cooper.
whats that?"
"a SNAIL" said the patrolman, SOL
emnly.
There was an embarrassing silence
for little while, and then the police
man continued:
''Here one time l was digging po-
tatoes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until ! Just took off my snoe
and lay down on my back in a grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and l was getting desperate
about it, when l noticed snail crawl
ing along near me. | 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. 1 have never been
troubled with that corn from that day
to this, and before that it troubled me
night and day for months. It's the
only cure for corns, and it's mighty
good remedy for warts, too"
There's only one cure for wart, =
said Patrolman Frank Christophine.
What is itp"
ga darky told me about it. 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 it
one night when l was going out
Marietta street. | stopped down, look
ing up ut the moon all the time, aud
picked up small stone. Then /
rubbed the wart until 1t began to
bleed and then threw down the stone.
All the time l was rubbing the wart
was still looking at tho moon. In less
than a week from that night the wart
was gone. That was a regular old
seed wart and l had been trying to
get rid of it for long time. That's
the only remedy l have ever found
for warts"
''One time in Americas" said Station
house Keeper John Joiner, Il saw a
strange wart cure tried"
How did it work?"
''It cured warts. NY son Charley
was a little fellow then, and both
hands were covered with warts. One
dav he was standing in front of the
store when a darky noticed the warts
and called Charley aside DO yor
want cureP' asked the darkv. Eyes,
said Charley. The negro gave him 6
chew of plug tobacco. Take that,
said he, and run down the street jus
as hard as you can go until you NEE
a negro. Hand him the chew of to
bacco. If he chews it, you needn'
think anything about it. The warts
will be gone inside week. 1t th'
darky won't take it, or won't chew it
you must try it again. Take a new
chew of tobacco and run down th'
street until you meet negro. Don,
tell anybody what I've told you unit
the warts are gone My boy tried it
1 saw him run down the street ant
suddenly stop and hand something tt
a negro. 1 asked him about it, but h
couldn't tell. Five or six days after
ward l happened to notice that thu
warts were all gone from his hands
and called his attention to it. L hat
nearly forgotten that said he, and HI
told me about that wart cure"
1.-The best thing for warts,'' sait
Call Officer George Hamilton, sis t.
cut the wart with borrowed knife
Let drop OF two of blood fall on
white piece of paper and then fold u!
the paper like a note and drop it il
the road where somebody is almos
certain to see it and pick it up. In les
than week from the time the note
picked up your wart will be gone"
Ibid you ever try it?'
Yes, sir, and it cured the warts. "
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