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Then cut out the part of the bark that has been chopped and bury 
it, and as the bark rots the warts will waste. I do not remember 
the effects of the incantation. . . . L. L." 
" In the cure of warts," says Mrs. Latham, in the Monograph 
already quoted, " the ash-tree has its part ; persons annoyed with 
these unsightly excrescences, after pricking them with a number of 
pins, stick the pins into an ash-tree, and believe that as they be- 
come embedded in the growing bark, the warts will gradually 
disappear." Op. eft. p. 41. 
The following Note appeared in Notes and Queries, 1st s. vii., 81, 
January 22nd, 1853:— "I remember in Leicestershire seeing the 
following charm employed for removal of a number of warts on 
my brother, then a child about five years old. In the month of 
April or May he was taken to an ash tree by a lady, who carried 
also a paper of fresh pins ; one of these was first struck through 
the bark, and then pressed through the wart until it produced 
pain : it was then taken out and stuck into the tree. Each wart 
was thus treated, a separate pin being used for each. The warts 
certainly disappeared in about six weeks. I saw the same tree a 
year or two ago, when it was very thickly studded over with old 
pins, each the index of a cured wart. Liverpool. T. J." 
Mr. James Britten, in his Plant-Lore Notes to Mrs. Latham 7 s 
West Sussex Superstitions (see The Folk-Lore Record. Part I. of 
the Folk-Lore Society, p. 158, 1878), says, "In Science-Gossip for 
1865, p. 85, a correspondent, ' K. H.' (Mr. Eobert Holland), gives 
the following as a Cheshire remedy for warts in connection with 
the ash-tree, 'which is by many implicitly believed in.' 1 Steal a 
piece of bacon ; rub the warts with it ; then cut a slit in the bark 
of an ash-tree, raise up a piece of the bark, put in the bacon, and 
close the bark down again. In a short time the warts will die 
away from the hand, but will make their appearance on the bark 
of the tree as rough excrescences. This remedy has been quite 
successful in the case of my man, who told me ! "' 
4. Ash Trees and Ague : — A writer in the Athenceum for 
17th October, 1846, No. 990, p. 1868, says, " An old 
woman, a native of Worcestershire .... furnished me with the 
