Turn it inside out, and it becomes a right-handed one!

Tom proceeds to enlighten the reader with other remedies for the common wart, including his favorite, spunk-water from a rotten stump. Of course, for it to perform it’s magical properties, it must be harvested at midnight after reciting the incantation Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these stumplopping.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.

Oct 30, Appalachian Wart Removal. 45 Comments October 30, I’ve never had a wart before (I feel like I should say “knock on wood”), but I did have some hideous growth on the inside of my thumb when I was pregnant with the girls. I had many complications during the pregnancy, but the weird growth was the most annoying and stumplopping.bars: “To remove a wart go to an old hollow stump that contains water and wash the hands or warts in the stump water.

After doing this, walk home without looking back and the wart will go away.” A few more Appalachian uses of stumpwater come from the wonderful book “Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia” by Anthony Cavender. Feb 24, Warts “Stump water is real good for warts and other skin ailments.” I keep stump water handy. Don’t you? Even better: “Steal someone’s dishrag, rub it. Nov 28, To cure warts, wash your hands in stump water. A ninth son can remove warts. Drop dirt from a newly-made grave on a wart and the wart will disappear.

To cure warts, pick them with a pin and bury the pin. To cure warts, take a hair from the tail of a gray horse and wind the hair around the stumplopping.barted Reading Time: 8 mins. Mar 18, Washing away warts involved bathing them with liquids held to have special properties, such as water collected from a depression in a stump, holy water, or.