1509. Cut as many notches in a sassafras root as you have warts; plant the root; if it grows, the warts will leave ..............................Mountains

1510. Call each wart by the name of a preacher, cut a notch for each one in a sassafras stick, and stick it into the ground up to the first notch. The warts will then disappear..................Mountains

1511. Cure a wart by selling it to someone and keeping the money.

1512. Warts may be cured by the touch of the seventh son of a seventh son, who must utter the words, "Go away, wart." No pay must be offered to the healer.

1513. Tie a black silk thread around the wart. When the thread wears out, the wart will disappear.

1514. Rub the warts with a snail obtained from the woods; place the snail on a stick; when the snail crawls away from the stick, the warts will be gone.

1515. Spit on a wart and rub it seven times upward with the finger while someone chants a hocus-pocus rhyme......................Western Kentucky

1516. Rub a steel ring on a rug, and then touch the wart

It will be gone at the end of three weeks.

1517. Cut as many notches in a stick as you have warts, and place it under the drip of the house. When it rains, the warts will go off...........Mountains

1518. Measure each wart with a stick, and break off the piece. Bury the pieces of stick. When they rot, the warts will be gone.

1519. Get a stone at midnight, spit on it, and put it on a rafter in the attic. In eight weeks turn it over. Secrecy must be observed.

1520. Touch each wart with a stone, and speak certain secret words of charm. The warts will leave.

1521. Go out secretly in the morning, rub a stone on the wart, and put the stone back exactly as you found it. Repeat this action daily until the wart disappears.

1522. A good cure for warts is to prick them with a broom straw, and then break the straw into as many pieces as there are warts.

1523. Get a piece of straw for every wart; touch each wart with a separate straw. Bury the straws in a wet place. When they rot, the warts will be gone.

1524. Pick three straws from a broom. Rub the wart three times. Bury the straws where water drops. When the straws rot, the cure is effected. This process must be done secretly.

1525. Rub a bundle of straws over a wart, and place it in a path where it will be picked up. If some one picks the bundle up, the wart will go away within a month.

1526. A witch-doctor takes a flat stick and cuts a notch for each of your warts. Then he chants: "Come, witches, take these warts away." He then hides the stick. When it is moved, the warts will leave.......................................Mountains

1527. Take a string out of a dish rag, tie as many knots in it as you have warts on your hand, and bury it under a rock. When it rots, the warts will disappear.

1528. Let someone tie a string into a knot on the wart, and then hide it in a place unknown to the afflicted person. When the string rots, the wart disappears.

1529. To cure a wart, walk backwards in the moonlight to an old stump full of water and stick your hand into the water.

1530. In order to remove a wart, you must get up some morning without speaking to anyone or allowing anyone to speak to you and walk down the steps backward and out of the house to a thorn bush, Take a thorn from the bush, and stick it into your coat; then address the thorn bush: "Mr. Thorn, I wish to trade you my warts for a thorn."

1531. Tie a black thread around the wart, and then put the thread where the water drips off the house.... ..................................Mountains

1532. Put a thread on the wart; then take the thread, and let some one bury it in a place you do not know. When the thread rots, the warts will come off.

1533. Any old woman who is possessed of supernatural power will remove your warts for so many pins... ..................................Mountains

1534. Point the fingers at a wart and say "Tige" three times. It will go away.

1535. In order to cure your warts, put tobacco juice on them.

1536. To remove your warts, rub a broken toothpick on them.

1537. If someone rubs your wart twenty-five times, it will leave your hand and go to his...........................................Central Kentucky

1538. Stick a toothpick dipped in vinegar into your wart. It will leave.

1539. Rub the wart with half of a green walnut and then bury the pieces of walnut.....Western Kentucky

1540. If you tie three knots in a red yarn string and throw it into the fire, the warts will leave your hands.

1541. To cure a wart, hold your hand so deep in water that you cannot see the wart.........Mountains

1542. To awaken a sleeping part of the body, wet your finger, and make a cross on that part of the body.

1543. No matter how much contaminated water may be, it will be purified when it has passed over nine pebbles............................Mountains

1544. To remove a wen, wish it away with a formula, and strike it with a book.

1545. If you have a wen on your hand, rub it against a dead-man's neck, to make it go wway......................................Louisville Negroes

1546. To cure a wen on your neck, place a string around the neck of a deceased friend of yours and afterward wear it around your own neck........................................Louisville Negroes

1547. To keep off whooping-cough, wear a black velvet band around the neck........Blue Grass Negroes

1548. A tea made from white ants will cure whoopingcough .......................Louisville Negroes

1549. You will cure a pain in your leg if you tie a string around your leg just above the knee.......................................Western Kentucky fire

1550. To play with fire will bring bad luck.

1551. A child that plays with fire will wet its bed.

1552. You will have bad luck if you burn bones.

1553. If you burn the skin of onions, you will receive money......................Lousiville Negroes

1554. If you burn an egg-shell, you will get money..................................Louisville Negroes

1555. If the fire roars, there will be a quarrel in the family.

1556. Some negroes can foretell the arrival of strangers by the presence of figures in the fire.

1557. If a piece of burning wood or coal rolls from the fire-place, a stranger is coming.

1558. To avert the coming of a stranger when a piece of burning wood or coal rolls from the fire-place, spit on the burning pieces.

1559. Name a piece of burning wood or coal when it falls from the fireplace the person you wish to see, and then spit on it.

1560. If a log falls out of the fireplace, put it back in the same position as it was before falling. If you do not, you will have bad luck.... Louisville Negroes

1561. You must not turn a log of wood over in the fire, for you will have bad luck; and if a piece falls down, you must not turn it around when you replace it.

1562. When fire pops, there will be a quarrel in the family. The one that punches the fire will start the quarrel.

1563. To avoid a quarrel in the family, stir the fire when it pops.

1564. If a spark pops out of the fire, company is coming.

1565. In making a garment, if the fire pops upon it, you will die before it is finished.

1566. To avert the disaster that follows the popping of fire upon your dress, throw salt into the fire.

1567. If a spark from a fire falls behind you, you will have trouble that comes from behind you.

1568. It causes bad luck to move into a house before the fire left by the last tenants has died out.....................................Western Kentucky

1569. If the soot hangs from the bars of a grate, some one is coming..........................Mountains

1570. If soot on the back of a fire-place catches fire and if sparks creep and crawl along it, you will have fresh meat.

1571. If a fire goes out before the fuel is consumed, there will be bad luck.

1572. If a tree is struck by lightning, the fire may be put out by milk but not by water.

1573. If you burn the wood of a tree that has been struck by lightning, there will be a death in your family. . ..................................Mountains