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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 ...

CHRISTMAS-KEEPING

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

Published: Saturday 22 December 1821
Newspaper: Royal Cornwall Gazette
County: Cornwall, England
Type: Article | Words: 1225 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS DAY,

... flocking ftill thrown, the pud with nine peas hid over the dour, and all the little ceremonies admirably depufled Bums his Halloween ftill pradlifcd, Thefe, however, tie now generally looked upon a diversion, and few have faith in their efficacy for, in ...

Review of Literature

... not weani to preclude ourselves g from making furtherqssotations when we mayhaveroom:- rt TViE THRtEE DASMSELS, A TALR or, HALLOWEEN, IT Come hither, my beautiful Jean, and my fairy Lilias, siid ft tbe venerable Coiiteassof loray to her laub inrts g y ...

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... it to Mr P Burke 2/. 7s. Gd., and wit rson paid the porter 5s., J 1 ur- Gd. and | Margaret, wife of Hare. —Remembers last Hallowe'en 1 and his wite, slept in witness's Pca n- whentwo persons, Gray hey Cat from Burke's, who asked tha t sbe would give th ...

THE LATE HORRIBLE MURDERS IN EDINBURGH. TO OBTAIN SUBJECTS FOR DISSECTION

... washing her short gown ; it was white 't.'iped. (Identified the bed-gown.) Wito'cln 3 « Connaway's between eight and nine and Hallowe'en night. There were Connaway and Wlfe WiUi2, n Burke, and John Broggan, lad wh om he did not know, the old had «n en M'Dougal ...

Published: Saturday 03 January 1829
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2527 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE AND SOMERSETSHHIE^G^

... and resolved returning to Ulasgow; but, she and her ion were both poor, this was to done by begging. On the morning before Hallowe’en, she was asking chanty in a grocer’s shop. There she was seen Willtam Burke, an Irishman, , who represented to this unsuspecting ...

Published: Thursday 01 January 1829
Newspaper: Dorset County Chronicle
County: Dorset, England
Type: Article | Words: 5881 | Page: 4 | Tags: none