Wart Removal Folklore in Appalachia
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- 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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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.
I believe that! I know of other instances that God healed warts.
@@brendado2214 Thank you!
Amazing Diane 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I was and still am truly amazed! It makes me so happy just thinking about it, that the God of the whole universe would care about my little woes and worries!
God is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent Our heavenly Father care about all areas of our lives, including warts;)! My faith teaches that...
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 🇬🇧🙏🏻
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.
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.
I'm 27, and I was named after my great grandmother. She was adored by all but it was evident that she adored all in return. I was still really young when she passed, so I have faint memories of her, but it's important to me to keep them alive. I miss her so much. One of my memories is showing her all of my warts I had on my knee and foot. She had rubbed them with a safety pin and had me bury it out in the back garden. They eventually all fell off and I've never had one since. I thank God for her, I was lucky she was a part of my life even for a short amount of time. She Will always be a part of me though.
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.
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.
This happen to me also - My Grandma
I remember something about a penny like this the metal or copper help disolve the wart....
My dad said his mamaw did this with a penny and whispered something in his ear. She told him don’t tell anyone and the wart would go away. It did and he claims he can’t remember what she said but I think he believes that wart will come back
Wow, Sue. I also as a child had a Christian Uncle who did this to me. He gave me the coin and told me to hide it. The wart was gone within a week if I remember right. I don't know if it was his or my faith or both that took it off but I never thought of it as faith but now I can see that happening since I was a child and had a child's faith. I have also heard that it is the 7th son of the 7th son who has this ability, but I don't know that for sure..
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.
1st Corinthians 12:9
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.
Thanks for sharing your experience Donald 😀
We had that old wives tales in the UK, but to bury the potatoe.
@@evelyncross1100 I’ve buried the potato for many people to remove warts and it always worked. We cut the
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My granny did the same with potatoes for warts
My wife's great-uncle in Virginia could "trick off" warts. What he'd do is take a broom straw and break it into two-inch pieces. Then he's touch each of your warts with one of the pieces of straw. Then he'd tell you he was done and that he was going to do something secret with the pieces, and that he couldn't tell you what or else it wouldn't work. Well, I had a bunch of warts on the back of my hand about 50 years ago so I agreed to let her Uncle Ned "trick" them off for me using the above method. After about two weeks my warts were gone. This is the God's honest truth.
My youngest daughter developed a lot of small to tiny warts when she was only 5 years old. I rubbed them with my bare hands & told her they were going to disappear, talked to her soothingly and asked her to believe, to have faith. All the warts disappeared in 3 days, all of them. She woke up in the morning & they were all gone.
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.
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
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.
Interesting, my grandfather had the same gift, method, and way of passing it along here In Georgia
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🥰
When growing up many, many years ago, the wart removal practice in my section was to go to a person who could “talk the wart off.” I never had the experience, but folks believed in the wart person.
You mentioned having a wart on your hand. That sounds like what we would call a seed wart. When I was in high school, I had two seed warts, one on a thumb and one on the bottom of a foot. Well, I went to the doctor, and he numbed them up, then burned them off. They never came back. I asked the doc what caused my seed warts, and he said they were caused by a type of virus.
My daughter had seed warts on her knee and my mother in law said that she could talk them off and sure enough it worked because the next day they were completely gone
I have heard many of these through the years, especially from the older generations as I was growing up .....I also believe in faith healing......thanks tipper ....God bless....🙏
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.
When I was young I had a wart on my thumb. My grandmother told me to "charm" the wart away. She told me to take a paring knife and cut a notch out of the bark of a pine tree in a place that was close to my house. She told me once the tree was cut I was not to look at the tree until the wart was gone. Well, I peeked at the tree a few times and did not lose the wart. So I chose another tree after a few months. This one was outside my bedroom window and one I would have to purposely have to avoid looking at. After about a month the wart was gone! I've never had another one and I'm 65 now.
Neat story-thank you for sharing it 😀
My grandmother did this paring knife to my wart when I was young. I was real young but I remember she lay the blade on top of the wart then went outside and cut a notch in a tree. Not sure how long it was but it just disappeared overnight one day.
My daddy could rub off warts! He never told me how he would do it but he rubbed off 100’s! One girl had warts all over her even in her mouth and her mother brought her to daddy and he rubbed them off! All I know for sure he told the ones he rubbed their warts with his thumb and told them to forget them! He had so many but the best one was the little girl her warts all left her! I always believed he prayed for them to go away and by telling them to forget them was them showing faith that they would disappear! Daddy came from farmers and preachers and I believe his faith is what helped so many in our area!
Your daddy had a talent to do that & did u ever ask him how he done it ?
@@jackyblue67same10 I never asked! I had heard at some point that my gran ( his mon ) who could do various cures that she could tell a man not related to her how she did what she did for cures; so I just assumed he’d have to tell a woman unrelated! He helped so many! I’ll always think as he’d rub the wart a little hard (friction) that he prayed and then he’d tell the. Person to forget about it! Week or two gone! Here’s a kicker no one in our fam ever got a wart! My youngest was 3 weeks old when daddy passed and he developed warts on his knee (3 of those nasty things) I tried to rub it off (doubted myself) but I finally made them leave with vitamin C crushed tiny bit of water make paste put on warts under bandaid! It wasn’t a fast process but Got’em 😉
My Grandpa could do the same thing. He took a neighbor's warts off her knee. He rubbed fat back or Joel bacon on it. Then he told her don't think about it. Sure enough it was gone. 😊
My mother, who used to read "Prevention Magazine religiously, put Vit E on a wart on my son's hand every day. Within 4 weeks it turned black and came out with a root on the end!
Thanks for sharing that one Debra 😀
Tea tree oil will dry them and make them fall off. Works on keloids as well
@@nomdeplume2213 How about skin tags?
tea tree oil is antiseptic and is excellent for toe nail fungus.
won't harm skin though so very likely won't remove a skin tag.
I used a razor blade once for a tag, it didn't return
A spot of Duct tape - retaped if it falls off - will remove a wart in 2-3 weeks.
Where did she get the Vitamin E?
My grandma always said “a wart on your neck means money by the peck”, I have neither 😂.
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So close to British traditions and folklore. Best regards from over the water.
That's just what I was saying about many southeasterners speech. Again, most of the settlers in NC & VA came from Scotland, Ireland and England....and many times because they were kicked out of their own native Countries. That turned out to be the very best thing that ever happened to them and their offspring on down through the years. But, yes, there are many words and much tradition and folklore shared with "over the water'.
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.
I had a wonderful co-worker talk a wart away. I had a painful wart on the side of my thumb. It had been there for years, way before i met her. Sometimes, it would flair up and hurt so bad. Anyway, I was complaining about it and she told me to bring her a clean chicken bone. So I did. She rubbed the bone on the wart and whispered quietly for a while. She then told me to bury the bone as soon as I got home. So I did. A couple days later I noticed a change, and by day 7 it was flippin gone! I was absolutely flabbergasted. That was almost 10 years ago, and I get amazed all over again when i talk about it... Thanks again, Becky!!
The membrane of a boiled chicken egg placed on a wart will remove the wart.
When I was five years old;
My Grandmother put the egg membrane on the wart on my hand. that was 55 years ago.
I’ve never had another wart , since then
Thanks for sharing that one 😀
Tipper. I loved this one. Brought back memories of my Uncle Popeye in WV. He was a wart “wisher”. He could simply wish them away but only for a fee. My charge was 1 cent. Lol. It worked too. Thx for the memory.
Warts do run there course, had them on my thumb and hand as a child and vanish as adult.
The white part of a banana skin and apply to the wart, is one I heard.😊
Some of these stories are really just conjecture and assumptions. However, an old Indian remedy for warts was taking Willow tree bark and making a strong tea with it and rubbing it on the wart, and keeping it covered. This would be done over several times until the wart disappeared. Well, this has a basis in current science. Aspirin is made from willow bark. It is salicylic acid...salicylic acid is exactly what is used in Compound W wart remover and is used in other dermatology applications for doing skin peels as well as having other skin applications. If you get a wart you can use a mortar and pestle to grind up very fine aspirin and make a poultice for your wart. Years ago I got rid of a planters wart on my son's foot doing this. My doctor was amazed!
Incredible. I have to try this.
Lots of herbal remedies work. Not sure why it's shocking.😂
One thing I saw as a kid was about wart removal. We went up to a cabin outside of Newport on the mountainside. No electricity or running water. Had to come when the moon was right. He's talk until the moon was up. He'd go into the cabin for a little while. I remember him coming back with his pocket knife out. He'd scrape it in the moonlight whispering something. A few days later, it'd fall off. Now, it may come back and may not. Kinda like when they're frozen off.
The last time we went, one of his blueticks got bit on the leg be a rattlesnake. He said he'd made a poultice of something and put on it. You could see where it was healing.
I don't know what he said or did. I always wanted to learn his secrets, but he refused. I heard that, before he died, he took a neighbor in as an apprentice, though I don't know her name.
I'm definitely a believer! When my oldest daughter was around ten years old she had a wart on her finger. We took her to a doctor and had it removed. It came back. We tried home remedies, they didn't work. One day she was at her grandmothers and her grandmother handed her a penny and told her that she wanted to buy her wart. A week or so later it was gone and has never came back!
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.
My husband and I are from southeast Ohio, and years ago we got a church to pastor in Glasgow WV. I had developed a wart on my right thumb about the size of a dime and it was bothersome in that it affected my handwriting because it was pretty big. A lady at our church saw it and took my hand and gently rubbed the wart and told me it would be gone soon. I didn’t believe her but thought it was nice of her to care. Within a week that big ole wart peeled off with brand new beautiful skin underneath. I was shocked. I asked her about it , she said she couldn’t tell me what she did,it had to remain a secret and that it was passed down in her family for years. I don’t know what exactly happened but I’m a believer now!
I had a seed wart on the end of my big toe as a child of about 8-10. It was huge and covered the whole top of my toe and the side. We tried every medical remedy known but nothing worked. One day, my dad took me to see an old man (probably 70-80 at the time) who lived about 2 miles from us. I don't know what he did, but he went in his house, came back a few minutes later, spit in his hand, put his hands over my toe in a sort of praying-hands position, and said something I couldn't catch. 2 weeks later the wart was gone and it never came back. I was too young to go visit him myself and my dad and I never went back to his house; I was never ever able to ask him what he did. I can't explain what happened--I only know that it did. This has put me on a lifelong search for folk remedies and magic. I keep looking, searching, studying. Thank you for adding to my knowledge and sharing your wisdom.
My wife's family has been living in the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains since before the Revolutionary War. When she was 11 or 12 years old, she developed a sizeable wart on her hand. Her mother tied a string around the wart and then told her to take the string off, bury it under a rock and "forget about it". According to my wife, the next day the wart began to dry out and within a few days it had fallen off. My mother in law was one of the most dedicated Christians I have ever known.
Whoa! God can do anything at anytime whenever HE CHOOSES!
My first miracle happened when I was 12 years old. I prayed and God took my nasty wart away.
My great grandmother could "talk fire out of a burn" and bought a wart from me one time when I was a small child. She gave me a penny for it, and I was instructed to rub the penny on the wart and throw it over my left shoulder. If I were to ever come across that penny again the wart would return. All I know is that wart went away and never came back. (I'm from rural georgia) I was delighted with this video, thank you so much!
Thank you Amy 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia you're so welcome! I have only just discovered your channel and I adore it. Keep up the fantastic content
It’s interesting to hear what people swore by, health wise. I have a really old, large medical book and the remedies or treatments in it are something else. I’m going to have to dig it out and share some of it, one of these days 🙂
I hope you do Kat-I'd love to hear some of them 😀
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You could scan it and post it online somewhere. We've gotta save things like that.
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.
I love to hear these stories too. I have been blessed not to ever had warts, but my great uncle use to remove warts with potatoes. He said to slice a potato and rub the wart with the slice and then dispose of the slice and the wart would disappear.
Many years ago I witnessed my best friend's grandma "take the fire out of a burn." My friend accidentally put her hand on a hot burner on the kitchen stove and really burnt her hand. Her grandma grabbed her hand and mumbled something I couldn't understand. My friend immediately felt the burn go away and no blister or even any redness formed on her hand. I begged my friend's grandma to tell me what she said over the burn, but she said she couldn't tell me or she wouldn't ever be able to take the fire out of a burn anymore. She did say that it was something that was passed down in her family. I witnessed this first hand and whether you believe it or not, it did happen. Appalachia can be mysterious sometimes.
I don't doubt it a bit .
There is certain scriptures to be read inorder to remove fire from s burn.
I need to pull our some family heritage paperwork that my grandpas sister Blanche (Jones) Anderson wrote. She states a specific phrase or scripture to say inoder to stop burning or to stop cuts from free bleeding.
My step grandmother had this ability. It had something to do scripture. She told me a woman could tell a man how to do this but not another woman. Only conversation I had with her about it
As a very young kid i was in a catholic home for unwanted kids and i had a bad tonsil infection, the priest crossed 2 candles over my throat and said some kinda words that i didn't understand and just like that the swelling and infection were gone,,, i will never forget that experience
@@tomcatt998 probably Latin language
Granny would use a pinto bean to rub it and she’d store the bean . (It went away.). Father-in-law was a seventh son of a seventh son , he could blow in the mouth of kids with thrush to treat. Had fire talked out of a BAD burn when I was 5 (pain immediately removed) . Stopping the blood was taught to me when young (repeated scripture ) . Seen them all used , also seen all the ailments cured.
Yes! Great uncle was seventh son of seventh son, which was supposedly why he had the ability to cure warts.
You know I have always found these things interesting and I have no personal knowledge but like you I have known people who were helped in different ways. Very interesting.
Thank you Buz 😀
My great grandmother's wart removal remedy was to rub the wart vigorously with an old dish rag. Then bury the dish rag behind the house. When the dish rog rots in the ground the wart will disappear. She was born around 1900. My mom swore by it.
My Grandmother was born in 1904 and she had the same belief. The only difference is she believed you had to steal the dishrag from a family member (That way the victim of the wash rag crime being a family member would not get mad because they knew the cure). I have also heard of slicing a green and watery Black Walnut in half and rub the wart with it. But the walnut cure might be from the other side of the family in Texas and not my Chattanooga Grandmother.
My Grandmother told us this remedy.
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
So glad you enjoy our videos 🙂
Oh to have faith the size of a mustard seed! Thank you for this story and your testimony.
My mother told me that when she was a child she had warts on her knees. My grandmother took her to a woman who could “talk the warts off”. She did this and then she told her to steal her grandmother’s dish towel and bury it and then the warts would be gone. They were gone the next day. The lady was also known to be able to talk the fire out of people. I love all of your stories! Blessings!
At the Blue Ridge Folk Festival in Ferrum VA, an old lady had a booth.."Remove warts for $5". I paid her $5. She took a sip of her coffee. Licked her finger (nasty thinking about it now). She rubbed the wart with her finger. She said something about grandma's cornbread and buttermilk and some other things. It was like a saying or a weird prayer. She told me to forget about it, and it will go away. Clearly, I thought I had wasted my $5. I kept looking at it. One day, I thought...I forgot about that wart. I looked, and it was gone. This was probably 2 weeks later. A friend that was with me at the Festival did the same thing. Her wart was gone too.
😀 Thanks for sharing that Sherry!
I believe this is true!!! Like you I have experience with a person that would never make up a tale about such!!! My grandfather was able to remove warts. He wouldn't talk much about it so my grandmother answered my questions. They are both gone now and I really wish that I had asked many more questions about a world of things!!! He did tell me that as he got older he no long felt able to remove the warts. My grandmother actually experienced his gift first hand and had many warts on her elbows removed by my grandfather. As I remember his method involved burying a dish cloth. Also to address faith in the realm of this gift, my grandfather was a very religious man. He was also very knowledgeable about the bible.
Thank you for sharing this, it really brought back some very special memories!!!!!!
Stay safe!!!!
I just recently bought my grandsons warts. I gave him 10 cents for four warts. They are totally gone now
I come from a long list of family that have this gift of healing.
My uncle was a country preacher. He bought some warts from me some 50 yrs ago. He also did the blowing out burns, etc. I believe it is a gift from God
When I was 12-ish ( I’m 56 now) I had warts on my hand. I rubbed a white potato on the wart & 2 weeks later, the warts were gone. Haven’t had a wart since.
I had a wart on my middle finger on my left hand. We had 4 lady's in our small town we were all scared of and we called them the witches. Later in life I learned to respect them. The mother's name was Tilly, and her daughters name was Francis, Margaret, and Mary Ellen. Francis used the dime and some words she mumbled and told me to spend the dime and forget about the wart, sometime in the next two weeks it was gone and never came back. That was near as I can remember some 48 yrs ago. Wonderful stories to hear Tipper. 🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
I used to grow marigolds in my flower bed when I lived in wv. You can take the flower of the marigolds and rub them into the warts twice a day for about 2,3 weeks and the warts leave and never come back. I did this for a neighbor's daughter whose hands were covered with warts and they all disappeared.
I truly love your channel Tipper and your family. As a young'n I got a wart on my toe. My grandma told me to get a piece of wool yarn from her sewing basket and tie it on the toe. I don't remember much else but in a few days, the wart was gone. I've read every Foxfire book I could find and I believe that one or two spoke of healing this way. Blessings to you and your family.
Thank you Carol 😀
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
Thank you Selina 🙂 So glad you had that wonderful grandmother!
I HAD A WART ON MY WRIST . I WAS 6 YEARS OLD. MY GRANDADDY TOLD ME HE COULD MAKE IT GO AWAY. HE RUBBED THE WART AND TOOK HIS POCKET KNIFE AND CUT THREE NOTCHES IN A MATCHSTICK. HE TOOK THE MATCHSTICK WHEN HE LEFT TO GO HOME. HE SAID HE THREW IT OUT THE CAR WINDOW. MY WART WENT AWAY IN 3 DAYS.
What a story! Thank you Teresa 😀
Heard of rubbing the unlit stick friction match (phosphorus sulfide) on the wart maybe wetted with vinegar or wetted by saliva.....
My Mamaw Bailey removed warts by rubbing an unburned match around the bottom of the wart 7 times. I had a big wart on my knee when I was 8-9 years old and it was gone the next morning! My Mamaw Brooks could blow in a baby’s mouth and cure “the thrush”, as they called it! She was known for this especially during the Depression when people couldn’t afford medical care. I am now almost 65 and I have never forgotten this.
Another method of wart removal is soaking a cotton ball with Apple cider vinegar (with the mother) and put it on the wart with tape before you go to bed. Take the bandage off in the morning. Repeat this method and the wart will come off within one week. Love your teaching!
Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar...
My grandmother taught me how to stop bleeding, cure the thrush in babies, and to talk the fire out of a burn. These are all godly gifts and much goes into them. I had to be taught as it is not something that you can just start doing unless you are given the gifts straight from god, otherwise you need a teacher to pass each gift on to you from their knowledge. Nobody in the family can remove warts, but I knew a man who would remove warts by rubbing them with a penny and tell you to keep the penny in your pocket until the wart was gone and then bury the penny. Thanks for the interesting video😊😊😁😁
Thank you Bucky-so fascinating!!
I just found your channel and love it! I wanted to tell you my story about removing warts. My little 2 year old niece had a wart just inside her nose and of course at 2 years old she kept picking at it and it kept bleeding. So my Mom's best friend Milly came over to our house and told us and her that she would rub the wart with a bean (just a dried bean from our kitchen) and then place it in a paper bag and throw it over the hill - not to retrieve it and the wart would go away. So this she did and the wart dissapeared within a week. I was about 12 years old and it so impressed me. One day when my girlfriend's son got a wart I just knew this remedy would work because I saw it work with my own eyes at 12. So I got a dried bean from the cupboard, placed it in a paper lunch sack and we threw it over the hill - telling the little boy that he should not retrieve it. His wart disappeared within 2 weeks. So, it must be a belief - Believe......... :) After reading all of these other comments - it seems to be the case.
Thank you Susan 🙂
I had a conversation with a dermatologist years back and she said that she knew of people that would rub their warts and say "wart be gone" and it worked.
I once had a wart as a child. My grandmother had me close my eyes, she rubbed the wart with a peeled arsh potato, then buried the potato in her backyard and my wart just disappeared sometime afterwards.
My uncle was known to talk the fire out of people that had been burned. If I remember correctly he recited a verse of the bible while touching the burn.
I'm a Christian and I believe in the healing gifts and alot of the old timey folklore cures have solid science behind them. TY. I found you through The Hillbilly Kitchen:)
Willie-thanks for watching 😀 I love The Hillbilly Kitchen-she's fantastic!
My Uncle Walt was a Rock Whisperer, that's what my Dad called it. He would whisper into a rock, he removed 2 of mine but I never heard what he said. He would rub the wart with the rock and tell you not to think about it for 3 days. The first wart he removed when I was about 6 or 7, a big one on my toe. The 2nd one he removed when I was about 16 on the inside of my palm that was very painful. It went away but started hurting in the same spot a few weeks later long after it had faded. That's how I found out he had gotten sick and died soon after. The pain in my hand went away completely when he passed. I always wondered about it. But so many people in my family had had warts removed by him it was sort of casual. It was only when I got older and told people about it that I realized how incredible it really was and I have never met anyone with a similar story until today, I was recalling this story and just decided to look it up online on a whim. I am so glad I found this video, thank you so much for sharing these other stories. It gives me a better sense of where this kind of thing originated and I am very grateful to have more of an understanding how it translates in other regions. I am from Alabama so perhaps Rock Whisperers are an evolution of Appalachian folk medicine
In 1971, my wife sold some warts that were on her hands to an old lady for a penny a piece, and they went away and never came back. That works if the person believes it will.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing all this. I’ve never heard of this before.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
My aunt in Southern Kentucky , Pulaski county, used a potato peel and rubbed it on my brothers wart and disposed or hid the peel so my brother couldn’t know where she placed the peel or it wouldn’t work. It worked for him removing the wart.
Tipper has that warm, soothing motherly quality that would make any kid feel better. I had a few warts when I was a child. I think I got them from playing with toads in the yard. My mom put some sort of wart remover medicine on them and they eventually came loose and fell off. I remember the crater they left in my finger afterwards.
Thanks for this channel, luckily growing up in East Tennessee, we had a semester on Tennessee history, loved that class, we talked of the same subjects y'all cover. My mamaw told me stories about working in the tobacco fields and someone was sent for when one suffered a bad cut, I believe her, she was a God fearing woman and never lied to me. Keep up the great work ! 👍👍
Thanks Allen 😀
I'm from north eastern Kentucky. Healing magic is in our DNA. My grandma was a witch and she could charm warts, take fire out, etc. This is true knowledge from our ancestral line. The power usually runs thru the mother's line and it seems as though it was my parents generation that was brainwashed away from using old medicine like this. We should carry this knowledge onto future generations. Magic is returning to this realm in fantastic ways, we are going back to the ways of our ancestors as those who choose an organic ascension timeline instead of the hive mind AI timeline. God bless all of you who carry the blood of the ancients. You are more special than even you realize.
Anything unfamiliar or unknown that seems strange often will be labeled as “magic” when it is nothing but innate abilities we all have.
@@TrickyVickey well, we are pure magic. We all carry the magic of the Divine Consciousness. Yes I agree it is innately who we are at our core, after removing the social conditioning and programming from an inverted system of government.
No magic about it…just faith and God…
My Grampy be would use the milk of a dandelion (stem). He would squeeze the milk onto the wart, cover it, repeat as needed until the wart was gone.
I'm 73 and as a child, a neighbor woman "bought" my knee wart, gave me a whole dollar for it. A week later, that wart had disappeared.
My uncle , rest his soul,,used to "sell" warts too!
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
So glad you enjoy our videos! Thank you for sharing 😀
My grandparents on both my parents side used milkweed and if it didn’t work they got the old dish rag out. And asthma was cured by cutting a sour wood stick it was then notched to the height of the child and placed into the attic. When the child grew taller than the notch the asthma was gone. One of my dads younger brothers was cured this way. My uncle has passed away now but the sourwood stick is still in the attic of my grandparents house but my uncle never had asthma again. As for the warts I finally had to be taken to the dr. I love to hear your Appalachian ways.
These folk remedies remind me of the Darling family's peculiar beliefs in the Andy Griffith Show.
My aunt has always been a thrush blower and she's cleared it up in probably three dozen babies since the 1970s. My grandma used the chicken wart removal often starting in the 1930s until she died in 2001. Tennessee mountain medicine at it's finest. I never heard them mention magic or faith as the basis of their doing those remedies.
As a kid I never had warts. When I was older I had a couple of growths on the back of my left hand. I don't know if they were warts but I had heard that doctors "burned" off warts with liquid nitrogen. That's -320º F. I didn't have any of it but we had dry ice where I worked. It is -108º so I figured I'd just have to hold it on longer. I took a sharp piece and stuck it to one of the things. It hurt for a little while then I guess it burned the nerves 'cause it quit hurting. I held it on until the dry ice was gone. It turned white and in a couple of weeks it came off. It left a little scar but it blended in with all the other scars accumulated over the years. I did the same thing with the other one.
Papaw that makes sense that it would work and it did 😀
Just found your channel. You are a wonderful storyteller and teacher. Enjoying the music too. Thank you for giving me a glimpse into your beautiful culture.
Thank you so much! 😀
I had a huge wart on the crown of my head. It would bleed if I caught it on a comb or brush. I had it surgically removed & it grew back . I had a friend “ talk it off “. She rubbed the wart & whispered something I couldn’t hear.
The wart almost went away but was still there. Next time I saw her, I told her it was better but still there. She did the procedure again & it was gone forever. She was not a witch, but the wife of a Baptist preacher. I was told not to thank her. She learned how to do this from her mother, & several others in her family had this ability.
I have also heard from older folks that if someone gives you a healthy plant, for example, (an aloe plant). If you thank them for it, your plant will die. Not sure if this works. Older people here in E. TN say these things.
Thanks, Tipper. I always enjoy your videos, but I especially enjoyed this one! Greatly love our Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!✝️
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
The wart stories are fascinating and I have a personal experience to tell you. I’m the woman that just found your blog and vlog from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. When my son was 10 we were at a family reunion and my Mother’s cousin in law was there. My son had warts all over his hands. Casis, the cousin in law was a seventh son of a seventh son and he told my Mother he could help my son. He held his hands for a few minutes and told him soon his warts would leave. I was very skeptical however, I just put it out of my mind. Within 6 weeks, I notice there were no more warts on his hands. He is now 54 and still there are no warts anywhere on his hands or body. I promise you this actually happened. But I was open to unusual things of this sort. My maternal Grandfather could witch for water and would be able to tell if it would be good water or not. I actually saw the peach tree limb down down and the bark split when he found the water. That’s my wonderful experience to share with you. I love watching all your videos, they give me such peace. Thank you for sharing.♥️
I can do this, my Grandma was from Scott county Virginia and she did this all the time, her mother was the healer in the little town. My mom can't nor can my sister. My husband didn't believe me when he had a plantar wart, so I told him to get me a penny. I rubbed the penny on it and told him...."go bury the penny where a chicken can't find it." He laughed made fun of me, 3 days later I asked him how is your wart? My hubby, stopped what he was doing,sat real still in thought, looked at me big eyed...spoke in a whisper.... It's gone😳
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My mom worked with a man who could remove warts.My mom told him I had warts on my hands and he said tell him to forget about the warts and in less than a week they were gone.He never even saw me. Also I had an uncle who could talk fire out of a burn.I saw that with my own eyes a few times over the years.Good video Tipper. Thanks
My great grandpa could stop someone bleeding and be miles away from them. I have some serious health issues right now and had to have a tooth pulled before starting treatments. When I left the dentist office the morning of 5/18/21, I changed the gauze several times in the parking lot. I thought back to my dad telling me about great grandpa the weekend before and my bleeding was under control by the time I got to work 45min later. I carry a mustard seed around with me as a reminder of who receives the glory for these healings.
I love remedies too ! Thank you for sharing .
My Great Grandmother had me rub the wart with an old rag and then bury it to decompose..(In the Ozark Mountains)
Fascinating-thank you for sharing that 😀
My dad would take a thread, and he would put it around the wart and bury it. I’m not sure if it was special string or a special tree he buried it under. It went away! I’ve heard it called witchcraft.
JD
I’ve heard what you said as well !
Neat stories! I agree with you, it’s about the Faith! Thanks for sharing!🙏🏻🐸
Thanks Deedra 😀
Amen Miss Tipper! I'm a believer too & these work!❤🙏🇺🇸
When I was about 10 years old I had a wart on my middle finger of my right hand on the palm side of my finger. It was the size of a pencil eraser. It made it hard for me to write in school. My granny was asked for a remedy. She told my mother what to do to make it disappear. Mom was told to soak a cotton ball in cod liver oil and tape it over the wart. Every night for about a week she would replace the oil soaked cotton ball with a fresh one and re-tape it. One night when she removed the oily cotton ball the wart came off completely and was stuck to the cotton ball. It never came back. That was over 60yrs ago.
I'm not in Appalachia, but am west of Atlanta in an area that was rural when I was growing up. Most people, including most of my ancestors, settled here from Appalachia. In the early 70's I can barely remember my grandmother walking me to an old "conjuring woman's" house that lived just down the road from us to remove a large wart on my finger. I think she tied a string around the wart, but it's hard to remember since I was so young. My wart did come off, but I think a dog scratched it off accidentally. I'm not sure what she did worked for my wart, but my older cousin had several removed by the same woman and she remembers a lot better. I've always been very suspicious of what in the world my grandmother took me to and have not heard a lot about conjuring around here.
My maternal grandfather removed warts from my knee when I was a little girl. He had the gift of stopping bleeding also.
Thanks Vickie 😀
I know your telling the truth because my daughter had 30 and someone bought them and I had tried everything
I really enjoy your videos. So much of what you talk about is familiar to me from growing up in southern Indiana. My Dad could remove warts. He told me once how to do it but I was young and unfortunately I’m not sure I remember everything correctly. He said if I ever told anyone else how to do it, it wouldn’t work anymore. I can say that it involved a section of corn stalk.
Really fun video!! Interesting!
Hi back when i was 12 or 13, (51 now?), My great Uncle Leon took me into a room on the far side of his house and told me to write down on a piece of paper how many warts I had and to not tell a soul. Of course being 12 or 13 these prominent warts were an embarrassment, so naturally I was skeptical to say the least that he could rid me of these 4 or 5 warts. I did as he said and I vaguely remember him putting the piece of paper in a paper bag. I never told a soul and within a few days all my warts were gone. I wish he were here because I want to ask him, how? We never spoke a word of this to each other nor did I ever mention it to anyone. Fascinating. My cousin had the fire talked out of her after a severe burn on a metal great at my Great grandmother's house. This is REAL. Thank you!
Hey sweetie,Kim from Monteagle here😉my Grannymoma took me(I was 4 or 5yrs.old)to my Granny Bulter's house,in Jackson,Tn.(LONG,long ride at that age..from Nashville🤣)and Grannymoma ALWAYS,ALWAYS took "the back road's" anywhere/everywhere she drove!...anywho, I had a wart,on my left middle finger(commonly..it hurt and bled anytime I "bumped" it)..Granny Butler took me out to the barn(btw..she died when I was 8,she was 97yrs. Old..so,she was in her mid 90's when this transpired)and walked me around her mule,several times..saying "something" and rubbed that wart,with her tiny,old,soft and quite shriveled hands💕..when we returned,she told my Grannymoma "something"..the wart was gone,within a couple of days and never returned..btw,they had took me to the Doctor,he burned it off(because of the bleeding..even tho,I was SO LITTLE) but,it had returned...YEARS LATER,I asked my Grannymoma about it and all I could get out of her was.. "Granny had "God's Gift"💕
Tipper a friend of mine told me a wart story where he was told that if he would "name" the wart on his lip and talk to it, the wart would go away. So just for fun, every morning around the breakfast table his children would say "Good morning Joshua" talking to the wart. He said it was hard to believe but many weeks later he looked in the mirror and the wart, aka Joshua, was gone. :)
My brother had a man that blew in his mouth for thrush. Mind you my Mama had taken him to doctors and used meds that didn't work. His mouth was cracking open and bleeding, he couldn't even eat. This man blew in his mouth and it was completely gone by two days. He was eating the very next day. My grandmother knew all about the remedies you speak of. 💗
I had a great aunt who would tie knots in sewing thread and ask someone to go bury it for her...it seemed to work for her... you mentioned about stopping blood...I do know the Bible verse people used to stop blood for people or animals...it can only be passed on man to woman or vice versa...
Thanks Keith 😀
Dear Tipper,
So this is two memories from my mother as a child on the farm in Indiana. There was a old woman in there area, a rural area and she was a healer and mom saw her do two things. A older man had a black cancer on his face, the old woman talked to it and rubbed it with her hands and then told him to go home and not think about it, two weeks later he came back saying the growth which was large had just peeled off. Second thing was a woman with a very badly burned arm and the old woman put leaves on the burn and wrapped it telling the woman don’t touch this! If it gets dirty just put more wrapping. I don’t know how long but mom said when the woman with burn returned the old lady took the bandage off and the burn was gone and healed with new pick skin. My mother was a child and probably around 10 years old but she always remembered this woman and her healing power. I don’t know if this was the power of belief or what but the cancer story fascinated me. I wish I knew what leaves she put on the burn. The family was in such a rural area, no doctor was there and the gravely sick needing a hospital which would have been very expensive for them was almost impossible to get to because not many had a car. They needed the old woman and I suspect she needed the people and I also suspect that this person was greatly respected in the community. We have modern medicine now and the old ways have fallen off but I wonder if you combined traditional medicine with holistic medicine if treatment would not be better. My husband had colon cancer in 2018 and did have surgery and chemotherapy but we used holistic medicine to combat the side effects of the chemotherapy which worked fantastically well! Baths with epsom salt, Apple cider vinegar, baking soda, lavender essential oil, foot soaks with same recipe. A diffuser with 4 oils for depression, lavender, Ylang Ylang, Roman Camomile, Bergamot, and he slept with that at night. Organic blonde coffee brewed and used as a enimah’s which removes toxins from the liver. And the most important we prayed all the time, I would as strangers to pray for us, my church and friends prayed for us including his doctors. In the name of Jesus Christ we are cancer free but they want 5 years clean before they call it done. Thanks so much for the video.
Jennifer
I had a neighbor whose mother was raised in the old ways. My neighbor had a horrible on the upper inner thigh. Her mother told her to grate a potato and tape it on the boil. It drew the poison out of the boil. The potato turned black. Her boil was gone. True story!
Hi Tipper, I have grown up with all these ..... We had an old preacher (95 yrs. old) that was called upon to stop bleedng. He didn't even have to be present. He is also the one who tought us about the 1st snow of March that stops burns. I do this today . I collect the 1st measurable snow and let it melt, bottle it, and when anyone gets any type of burned just pour it over the burn and it is as if you never were burned. I don't know how it works but it works. I have experienced it first hand.
Never heard of that one.
Hey there in Appalachia,,,Bruce here again...
Congratulations on all the new subscribers.. I remember when you were at a couple thousand..Take care yall..
Thank you Bruce 😀
In route NC on the VA line is where I was born and when I was six yrs old I had a small planters wart on my left ring finger where a ring would fit. It started to sting & bleed so Daddy took me to the house a few doors down and just like the Mr. Hall story the old lady came out the back door looked and rubbed the wart and said go home and don't think about it no more. So I didn't and sure enough not sure when it but it was gone in a couple days. Amazingly we use to wonder how she did that. 🤔