Wart Charming

Warts are somehow inextricably linked to Witches. The caricature Witch invariably has a wart on her nose, and it used to be said that if somehow was truly a Witch they should have the power to cure warts.
Warts can be counted away. The sufferer should count their warts and give their name and the number to the healer, who would tell them to 'uncount' their warts. The warts should then vanish within two weeks. I have 'bought' warts by giving a person a coin for them which they then rub on and retain until the warts go. However, it is said that if someone who is not a true Witch tries this then they will gain the warts! Alternatively, cross each wart three times with a new pin and cast it away (outdoors please) over your left shoulder.

Many plants are said to aid the healing of warts: cut a notch for each wart into a piece of Elder, then rub the stick on the warts and burn it on an open fire. Another version says the stick should be placed in the road so that another finds it and takes the warts! An apple cut in half should be rubbed on the wart, sewn together and buried. As the apple rots so the wart will go. This rubbing and burying also applies to meat,. pieces of bread pinched out from inside a freshly baked loaf, and straw. The juice of a freshly-picked Dandelion is said to speed their removal, as is that if the Spurge, Celandine and Elderberry.

"Ask not what the Craft can do for you, but what have you done for the Craft.."

~from the Real Witches Year by Kate West

When I was about 10 or so, I got a case of warts on my feet.  My father bought them from me for a quarter a piece which came out to a couple of dollars!  Within a week, the warts were gone, and my father was putting wart remover on his own feet!