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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 by Burns in his Halloween. This holidayiu olden time was equally reverenced by the Christian and the Moorish inhabitants of Andalusia; and such of ...

Published: Sunday 24 June 1821
Newspaper: British Luminary
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 322 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

This Day is Published, BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, No. LXX., for NOVEMBER 1822. Con TENTS. —l. Political ..

... Metamorphoses not 14abulous.—X111. The Unicorn and the Mermaid.—X IV. John Brown; or, the House in the Muir.—XV. The Lemur, Halloween Divertimento.— XVI. Translation from Buchanan.—XVl I. Stanzas to an Infant.— X VIII. Plan for Expediting the Mail from London ...

Published: Friday 29 November 1822
Newspaper: New Times (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 625 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE ITALIAN OPERA

... kept up with great spirit on this ei,ii the charms are much the same as those immortalised by Bvata,.in his inimitable Halloween, which festival is celebrated by the Irish, also, With quite : as much de• votional ceremony as by the Scotch. Earl GROSVENOR'S ...

Published: Monday 25 December 1826
Newspaper: Star (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 771 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

DIPLOMATIQUE ETIQUETTE,

... the eve of St. John (says Mrs. Graham) the maidens of Brazil practice some of the same rites as those of Scotland do at Hallowe'en, to ascertain the fate of iheir loves. They burn nuts togeiher ; they put their hands, blindfolded, on a table, wilh tbe ...

Published: Friday 12 November 1824
Newspaper: Morning Post
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... Witness cams out of the on the fast night, aid the thiamin left the hums on she following nownlag, May, the of thither. It was Hallowe'en. She NM, when ohs wont out, that sho was going to see they her son, who bad lift house some bible. Knew Charles M'l taut+ ...

The LORD ADVOCATE objected to the question

... admonished, by Lord MEADOwBANIC, after which site was.examined by the LORD ADVOCATE. Lives in Portsburgh ; remembers last Hallowe'en night. Afterwards lay down in a bed. Was standing between the door and the bed when Burke was on the top of the old woman ...

Published: Saturday 27 December 1828
Newspaper: Sun (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1171 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

pervm tor a subject, in order to murder them. Heard him nee it when he did not mean to murder, but under-

... denied all knowledge of it. (Hare was removed the of the police the outer house.) Margaret, wife of Hare—Remembers last Hallowe'en night, when two persons, and his wife, slept in witness's house. They came from Burke's, who asked that she should give ...

Published: Sunday 04 January 1829
Newspaper: Bell's Weekly Messenger
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1179 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Q UEEN CHARLOTTE'S L

... of the Highlanders, I illustrated in N'arrations of Ghosts, Fairies, Brownies, Wateri lKelpies, Spunkies,Witchlicraft, Hallowe'en, Christmas, Fasten's Eve, Weddings, Wakes, &c. In post 8vo. price 6s. boards, ASHORT TREATISE on OPERATIVE SUR- GERY, describing ...