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Midsummer Day, and St, John the Baptist,

... Allhallows Eve, the Scottish observances and superstitions connected with which have been so beautifully treated Burns In his Halloween. This holiday in olden time was equally reverenced by the Christian and the Moorish inhabitants Andalusia ; and such of our ...

ULVERSTON HUNT

... of the fine and bright clays which tme iines occur at this season, and mark the close what has been termed the summer of Hallow-een, there was this year nothing hut wind, ami rain,—pitiless, ceaseless rain. Mondav, to be sure, there was little hope that ...

the old woman was, who said that she was too impudent, and she had turned her out. The old woman

... Haire, or Hare, an associate, became acquainted with the prisoners about year ago. Was in a public bouse along with Burke Halloween day. Burke told witness to down to bis bouse to see the t/utt isnil got, that was going to take the doctors ; that there ...

LITERATURE: THE GEM

... nod his wife stopped there a few days with Burke, in the last week October. Saw Bkirke on Friday the .’list of October ;on Hallowe’en night. Saw him go past with a woman sometime in middle of the day. She thinks about one or two o’clock. Witness was then ...