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The grasshopper wart remedy Cowan records
Cowan reports that Swedish peasants had Decticus verrucivorus, a kind of grasshopper, bite warts on their hands. They believed the black fluid it released from its mouth would make the warts disappear. This was a folk remedy he recorded, not a tested or recommended treatment[1]. He also says boys attributed wart-curing power to similar black fluid from grasshoppers, which they called “tobacco spit”[2].
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