Wart Removal Folklore in Appalachia

Sharing wart removal folklore in this video. I’ve heard about folks who could remove warts all my life. The most common methods are related to rubbing, buying, and counting.

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[dioad]

My pawpaw was a faith healer I remember women coming to his house with there babies to get them cured from thrash and a family member coming over after a motorcycle wreck with burns from exhaust to get the heat out, I asked him why he could heal people he said his father died before he was born, he was the best man I ever meet but he didn’t get saved until he was seventy, I was cured of thrash by a black women who took me beside running water and cut my back and took my blood and put it in my milk to drink but he couldn’t cure me because I was his relative, thank you for keeping this tradition alive.

[Mrs.TJTaylor]

Well, here’s my wart experience. Believe it or don’t. It’s true. I had a plantar wart. It hurt like walking on a jagged rock. I saw a podiatrist who gave me an acid to use on it, covered with bandages. I did this faithfully for a year and the wart got nothing but worse. It was huge. One day, in pain and despair, I cried out to God and begged Him to heal me. The next morning I noticed that my foot didn’t have that telltale burning feeling. I took the bandages off and there was a deep hole in my foot. From that morning my foot healed. The wart never returned.

[jayleigh]

I had a wart when I was around 7 years old back in 1969 my mum rubbed it with a cube of beef and buried it in the garden saying when the meat rots the wart will be gone, well I guess it worked within a few days it was gone.

Blessings from across the pond 🇬🇧🙏🏻

[aliolivi]

Eastern NC here! When I was a little girl, I had around 70 warts around my knee. I was terribly self-conscious and my mother tried everything. I had them treated at the drs office but they kept coming back. My great uncle was a healer. On a gag hunch, we gave him a call. He began talking gibberish and asked me to rub my knee in circles. 5 days later, I woke up with NO WARTS. Our family still laughs to this day, and we're still astonished.

[graceandglory]

I am 73, pushing 74 years of age. Lived most of my life in Maryland. My grandmother could do just about anything, and I adored her. One day she noticed me looking sad and asked me what was wrong. I showed her the ugly wart on my hand. I was very young, and the girls refused to hold my hands as we played in the circle due to that wart. She got a penny and rubbed it on the wart. Then she buried it outside. Within a week it was noticeably smaller, and within two weeks it was gone and never returned. She's been gone a long, long time, and I sure do miss her.

[philipcurtis]

When i was alot younger, about 4 or 5, I had really bad warts on my hands. We lived in the hill of north ga. and used the old ways. My mom took me to an old man and told me he was a wart charmer. I walked up to the old man and he said it will be ok and rubed my hands with his. He said that he would like to buy them from me. I said ok and he handed me a jar of honey. He told me to go home and they would be gone in a few days. sure enofe they were gone. Love your videos. Reminds me growing up.

[benlaw]

I have heard many of these through the years, especially from the older generations as I was growing up also believe in faith tipper ....God bless....🙏

[donaldwells]

When I was a young boy about 8 years old, my Great Aunt Carrie took a potato and sliced it, one slice for each wart. I probably had 5 or 6 warts on each hand, she rubbed each wart with a slice of potato and put the slices in a paper bag and told me to toss the bag away.In a couple a weeks I noticed they were gone.All I know once I had warts and now 60 years later and I still haven't any warts.🙂Thanks Tipper, this topic brought back a lot of good memories.

[gerardjohnson]

Matt's warts went away cause of the company he was keeping. He's holding your hands and in the power of love and bond no affliction could matter. The warts simply gave up and disappeared. You said you never had a wart. It is your touch, your powerful being and faith. I enjoy this channel. Thanks for sharing

[farmanthor]

My grandpa was a preacher who had the gift of healing. He did many things and healed me when I was a child. He healed my sister. He even healed cows who stopped giving milk. All through the power of God and did not take an money for what he did.

[suestogner]

I’m southern and when I was a kid my Grandpa was the person all the cousins went to for most anything. Warts being one of them. Anyway while I never had any lots of my cousins did so I saw him do this often. He would ask the child for a nickel and he would rub the wart with the nickel while muttering something that you could not understand under his breath. Within a few days the wart was gone. I saw this happen many times and he never failed to remove it. He never would tell anyone how he did this so it died with him. Once I asked him why he wouldn’t tell anyone his secret. His response was God gave him his gifts when he was a very young man and if anyone truly wanted to know that secret they needed to seek God because it wasn’t his to pass on.

[mdianecoker]

I’m 72 now. But as a very young child, I had warts on my knee and foot. And as others reported, nothing removed them. My parents took me an old country woman that spoke over me, rubbed something over those warts and they disappeared within a week. Pretty amazing. Especially since my parents were very religious and normally would never have considered something outside of church. Whatever she did, worked.

[sheilahackney]

Well here's my story...when I was probably about about 11 or 12...I had a wart on my forehead. My uncle( my Mom's only brother) put his thumb on it and prayed to God for it to be removed. He had done this type of thing before so that's why my Mom got him to do it. Well not sure now how long it took but in a few days it was gone!!🙏💕 So I do believe these things can happen. And they are healers🥰

[candimccullough]

Hello,
Enjoy your channel. When I was about 5 years old, I walked through fresh hot coals. My feet were burned badly. My parents took me to a neighbor to take/wish the fire away. It worked. Mama said it was a scripture. Yes, we are from Kentucky. South Central KY

[wandasetzer]

There's so much testimony here from first-hand experience that you can't doubt it. My grandmother did the same as lots of other people, it seems, except for me she asked me if I loved God and believed he could do anything. Then she did the rubbing (not hard) and speaking under her breath. She said I wouldn't know when the wart fell off, but I did, and 'fell off' was exactly what happened. Fell off and left nothing behind. She's been gone a long time and I still miss her. Your videos are so pleasant to me because the things you talk about are so much like the way I grew up. Thank you for sharing with us.

[neldarust]

I am a Baptist Preacher's wife and in our first church there was a lady who they said could remove warts. I was skeptical and really didn't know what to think about that. Everyone told me I should ask her to look at a wart I had on my hand. I finally did but I thought it was weird. The best I can remember is that she looked at it and rubbed it and said to go home and forget about it. In a few days, the wart was gone and never came back. I don't know what or how she did that but I'll just say that it couldn't have happened if the Lord did not want it to happen. I asked her latter how that happened and she said that she could tell a man how to do it and a man could tell a woman how to do it. This lady was probably in her 80's. This was in Texas in the 70's.

[sheiladuvall]

I had a plantar wart on my heel and my mother’s brother, Uncle Lyman, heard me complaining about it. He said he would buy it from me if I would give him a penny, then he buried it under a tree stump. I don’t remember how long it was before I noticed the wart was gone. I was about 20 years old. Now I’m 81 and you reminded me of that! He lived near Coffeyville, Kansas on a farm, where there were many stone fences, that had been built by pioneer farmers. Those fences are still in place. I enjoy your Celebrating Appalachia posts and hearing about your life and family.

[selinahopeformefarm]

LOVE your channel. I love your little stories they bring me such peace and joy. You're such a great storyteller ...just like my grandmother. my grandmother was full-blooded native. she was a medicine woman and healer. she had so many neat old remedies and some that I have tried really work. she used plant medicine and even food to heal. she taught me that everything we need comes from the earth and the creator (God). I have endured some very horrific things in my childhood and my belief in God and my faith got me through it all to the other side. God bless you, sweet lady for sharing your stories recipes and part of your life with all of us

[jcsvidonline]

First of all, I would like to thank you for your entire series of videos. They bring back my childhood, with a smile.
My Aunt Mabel was able to remove warts by rubbing a cut potato over the wart. She would then put it in a paper bag and place it under the eave of the house. It would always work.
I remember two times as a child, faith healing worked for me. I had a major cut between my toes that wouldn't stop bleeding. We lived way out of town. I remember my Mother going to a neighbor. She placed cob webs on the cut and read a verse from the Bible a couple times. The bleeding stop. I also remember have thrust when I was 5. We were in a sawdust floor church. This kind lady took me outside rubbed my throat with some type of leave, said a pray it was gone the next day. Sorry for such a long comment. God Bless You

[bettyswinford]

I have heard about the dishrag.The old folks had to have a cure for everything, few doctors around.Just love your videos and the love of our wonderful mountains.I was born and raised in the Virginia mountains.I live in the north Georgia mountains now, same mountains just a little further south.Keep up the love you have for Appalachian mountains.