[excerpt from 'Lancashire Folklore and Superstition of a Past Generation']
Warts were supposed to be removed by the following means: A snail was hung upon a thorn, and as it wasted away so would the warts; or a piece of meat was stolen from the butcher's, the wart rubbed with it, and the meat secretly buried at four cross roads, and the warts decayed as the meat did. This latter remedy was most popular because most efficacious; it was practised in recent years in North-East Lancashire.
Blackburn Standard, 2nd June 1894.
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