It was a well known "Fact" that handling frogs gave one warts

[Bretrick]

As a young person - up to age 14? my hands would always have a couple of warts.
Grandmother said it was because I was always in the creeks capturing frogs.

 

[ohioboy]

Do witches have frogs sit on their nose and chin?

 

[seadoug]

I was always told this same wives' tale as well.

 

[hollydolly]

yes we were always told this when we were kids.. so I stayed well away from frogs.....

 

[ohioboy]

Mistletoe is not a foot disease.

 

[astralcat]

I caught frogs when I was a young child and I never got warts.

 

[Bretrick]

I caught frogs when I was a young child and I never got warts.

A little research show the Human papillomavirus was the culprit.
Usually caught via skin to skin contact.

 

[timoc]

I had warts on my hands when I was a kid, and when I went to pick a frog up, it hopped away from me at 200mph.

 

[Fritz]

We had this little creek bed out back that had these little tiny frogs. I would catch them and kiss them according to mom. I brought one home one day and she snapped a pic but we were the only ones that knew I was holding a frog. I've always liked frogs. LOL!

Never had a wart in my life.

 

[Tommy]

I always heard warts came from handling toads.

 

[IrishEyes]

Before entering Jr. High School I began to get warts on hands. Mom used those wart removers and yes they came off but I could still see teeny black specks under the skin. They came back again. Entering Jr. High I found out Square Dancing was a part of P.E. and I panicked. How mortifying was that? Grandpa did some research quietly and talked to his Doctor friend.
He took a string and an ink pen, sat me down, tied a knot in string then rubbed it on a wart, then put a ink dot on each wart to x it out. I had 29 knots in the string when he was done.
He takes me out side and has me bury the string. He tells me "When you forget about this string, the warts will disappear" Of course I thought he was nuts. Of course each day for awhile I looked at my hands...still there. So of course you think...ehh live with them.
And yes, one day I noticed ...no warts. Turns out they were back then called "seed warts" and were a virus and after running their course would just die off. So he was not a wizard after all, just a smart man

 

[Bretrick]

I always heard warts came from handling toads.

Where I came from there were no toads. So frogs had to suffice.

 

[hearlady]

You can get fungus out in the places frogs frequent like bogs and dead forest so maybe??????

 

[IrishEyes]

You can get fungus out in the places frogs frequent like bogs and dead forest so maybe??????

I lived in L.A. no bogs or forest there. I was in the sand pit at the park a lot and playing ball with other kids that a virus could have been passed on play equipment. All the warts were on the inside of my hands, not the outside so that may prove it was passed in handling things.

 

[spookycat2]

I caught frogs when I was a young child and I never got warts.

When my daughter was a kid, she brought two in the house. And they disappeared, and nobody knew where!
I think someone was pulling my leg.

 

[JustDave]

I always heard warts came from handling toads.

Yeah, toads were what I was told. I was always skeptical.

 

[Paco Dennis]

I belived it. I had warts on my hands when about 6. My Dad told me to rub bacon on them and bury the bacon. So I did, and two days later they were gone!!

 

[IrishEyes]

I accidently I think I traumatized a child in my day care with a toad. I saw one on the sidewalk picked it up and he smiled was reaching for it and toad's bladder gave way right then, the boy screamed terrified and jerked his hand back. His mom was with us and she busted up laughing, said Guess I won't have to worry about him playing with toads now.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

It's also a well known "fact" that you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find the one, who is a princess.