Show Are You I Superstitious Have Hae you any warts Then count them and put the same number of rocks in a sack Drop the sack in the middle of a crossroads The first passerby to pick up the sack will inherit the warts If this falls fails dont don't despair AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican folklore in the large collection collection collection tion of Dr B. B A. A Cartwright of the ic University of Oklahoma Includes includes In- In udes of superstitious wart art cures Here are other wa ways s 's of f losing the pesky things Squeeze juice from a bean leaf leafon leafon on n a wart In three days the wart will disappear Ah Ab au nut t Your wart will i Jf if go away yOU ou rub it 11 in dirt W Warts arts from a new grave Wear a copper cent on a string around round your neck and your warts will leave If you steal your neighbors neighbor's dishrag dish- dish rag ag your our warts will disappear To cause warts to go away rub rubem them em with the Juice of a dandelion dandelion dande- dande lion on with tobacco juice with milkweed milkweed milk- milk weed veed juice or rub them with a a. stalk talk of green mustard Warts will go away if you s sell them hem to someone and receive money for them A third son born after his fa fathers father's fathers father's fathers father's fa- fa ther's death has magic power to remove warts Count all your our warts and tell your aunt how many you have If f she does not tell anyone your our warts will disappear Rub your warts with coffee grounds put the grounds in a bag and bury it The warts will leave To make your warts leave wash them hem at midnight in water found In n a hollow tree a p 1 12 New Grave Gra Dirt Kemo es Warts Rub poke poke root root on your warts to tomake tomake tomake make them disappear Rub your wart with a grain of corn and drop the grain gram into a well The wart will leave when the grain rots Catch a live fish and rub it on your warts to cure them Hold a hailstone on your wart warl until it melts The wart will go gc goIn goin in a short time Put a katydid on your wart It II will remove the wart Tie as many knots in a twine string as you have warts Suspend the string under the eaves of th the house where the water can drip orthe on or the knots It will wash all your you warts off I If you touch a wart during j a thunderclap the wart will soon dis- dis appear That one can rid himself o of warts by going mountain climbing climb ing in a thunderstorm is the belief belief bellef be be- lief of Leonard C. C Chatwin j jyoung a a. ayoung young scientist at the University of British Columbia Recently Chat Chatwin win a member o othe of 01 the British Columbia Mountaineering Mountaineering Mountaineering Mountain Mountain- club described how wit with witha a fellow member he had been caught in a thunderstorm while scaling an foot toot peak Chat Chat- Chatwin's Chatwin's wins win's partner who had warts lost los them a week after the mountain thunderstorm and attributed it t tc the forks of invisible lightning that tha struck their axes aCes setting up a steady buzzing hiss |