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... the last few weeks. The men of a former generation used to say that it was a custom to keep a few potatoes as a rarity for Halloween supper,” and it is now evident that such a state of matters is rapidly approaching, as it is clear that potatoes can now ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1848
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 939 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Gutta Percha

... previous. We believe the circumstance occurred in connection with the accustomed recreations of children on the celebration of Hallowe'en on Friday evening. The poor child who sustained the fright was driven into such a state of mental insensibility that he ...

HOY JT. VICTORIA THEATRE

... unbounded applause Twenty Ethiopians. The most pleasing entertainment of the kind in London. The very attractive Ballet Halloween will be acted often circumstances will admit.—A ONCERT each night in the Hall of Nations—THlS EVENING, the Opera, in one ...

Published: Thursday 03 June 1847
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2229 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1841. Byo., Price 12*

... country, Halloween, tlie night on which apirita have ever been snpiioscd to be liberty to wander, and might not this superstitious idea luive had its origin in the observation of these meteoric phenomena ? Burns, in his description of Halloween, countenances ...

DUTIES ON SUGAR

... leave to decline giving her name and address, Messrs. Rowland and Son of her having had a juvenile party at her house last Halloween, and the occurrence and extraordinary results which thence issued performing one those rites of superstition common that ...

Published: Sunday 20 June 1830
Newspaper: Bell's Weekly Messenger
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1008 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

ASTLEY’S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE

... Mean. After which the Farce ANTHONY rf FOI’ATUA MARRIED AM) SETTLED. Anthony. Mr. • Cleopatra, Mrs. Young. To conclude with HALLOWEEN ■ or the Demon Hunter of the Hills.—Doors open at b.x, begin at Q-iar'er before Seven. Admissiot., Is.; Lsdias and Juveniles ...

Published: Monday 06 March 1848
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 995 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION

... events and people. Burns had celebrated in a charming poem the superstitious rites indulged by young folks in Scotland on Halloween; and, considering these to be under the tutelage of lays or fairies, represented those good people to have been, to use the ...

Published: Monday 13 December 1847
Newspaper: Liverpool Albion
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1047 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MEETING AT CLAY KNOWES

... in readiness to act If requisite; but tbeir services were rendered unnecessary ; and the streets were soon, considering Hallowe’en,” unusually quiet. It was mentioned from the hustings, that there were 100,001) people present, when the Assembly assented ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1819
Newspaper: Morning Advertiser
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 988 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Foreign News

... the soldiers, was taken badly on the night previous to Hallowe'en she appeared at work the next morning, and was as nierrv as the rest cutting the tails off her old lovers' coats, etc. Hallowe'en night. Suspicion however arose, and she was apprehended ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1836
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2539 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS-KEEPING

... stocking is still thrown, the pod with nine pease hid over the door, and all the little ceremonies admirably depicted Burns his Hallowe'en still practised. These, however, are. now generally looked upon as diversion, and few have faith in their efficacy ; for ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1821
Newspaper: Cambridge Chronicle and Journal
County: Cambridgeshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS-KEEPING

... still thrown, the pod with nine peas hid over the door, and all the little ceremonies so admirably depicted by Burns in his Hallowe'en still practised. These, are now generally looked upon as a diversion, and few have faith in their efficacy; for in our days ...

ROYAL IMAM= TELLTILL

... MULL; or DRUM ILIAD MARRY • Draws, 3 acts also, the N at sowelade Or LULEA OF Lu a Noll, to NO Ow CAP r UN'S NOT A RIMS, and HALLOWEEN. • No at aloager. Mr. ROYAL SALOON. Simmod Ay the Ohasuberkind—Lessim, Kr. Seassol Lims. and Plt. ed. Haltprire st Haltpeat ...

Published: Sunday 20 June 1847
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1007 | Page: 6 | Tags: none