HALLOWE'EN

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Published: Friday 08 November 1850
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3485 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

THE DUKE OF ARGYLE ON CHURCH EXTENSION

... branches extend 3 feet on each side the stem, allround, which thus gives a circum. ference of 18 fetl! What a rare chance for Halloween! 'Dr Schlegel traces the disposition to commit suicide among - the English, Germans, and Russians, to intemperance, in France ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1851
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2327 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

GLASGOW, NOVEMBER 3

... leafy head, and boric 5lo)(1it by ?? of merry clhildren shouting, at the ,jlest pitchi of their voices, the old rhyme of Halloween, a nicht at cen,, I heard all unco squpakiin, &c. li,-doors, of course, there would be ntimerois reunions t of young ?? ...

Published: Monday 03 November 1851
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1916 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

... After tfie lapse of'20)0 year the ancient custom is preserved as if it were of yeste day. The superstitions of Mday-eve and Halloween a still practiseLd, aid not one of the ceremonies in Burn poen is neglec'ted, though their origin is unsknown. '',lce names ...

Published: Wednesday 08 September 1852
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 22203 | Page: 2 | Tags: News 

BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE

... the lapse of 200 years, the ancient custom is preserved as 8 if it were of yesterday. The superstitions of May-eve and a Halloween are still practised, and not one of the ceremoniesI in Burns' poem isneglected, thoughtheir origin is unknown. The names ...

Published: Thursday 09 September 1852
Newspaper: Daily News (London)
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 5985 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE DIALECTS OF IRELAND

... lapse of 200 years, the ancient ous- bet tom is preserved as if it were of yesterday. The super- law stitions of May-eve and Halloween are still practised, con and not one of the ceremonies in Burns poem is neg- nor lected, though their origin is unknown. ...

Published: Tuesday 14 September 1852
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1460 | Page: 6 | Tags: News 

OLDMACHAR PAROCHIAL BOARD

... iiestant, when flue 5 whole of fleyotsh n beauty of the district assembled to trip A ;the 'light fantaticte,' mand hold their Hallow'een. Air Ti aRobertsoie conducted the music in his usual styladtiehl '11 was kept up wvith nmirthm and goad hunieour, varied ...

Published: Wednesday 24 November 1852
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2904 | Page: 8 | Tags: News 

MISCELLANEOUS

... years, by extraordinary exertions on the part of the inmates to mark a holiday, or to do honour to some distinguished guest. Hallow'een and New-year's-day hadtheir usual festivities. On one of the weekly assemblies the amiable and accomplished physician of ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1853
Newspaper: Ipswich Journal
County: Suffolk, England
Type: Article | Words: 9832 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

... was followed by other the - -amusements irs the concert-hall, amongst which were the Dr.I g Caledonian ballet romance of Halloween, the principal aind ;. characters being taken by the Leclerq Family. There bur-, 0Owere extra displays of fireworks, the ...

Published: Tuesday 16 August 1853
Newspaper: Liverpool Mercury
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4416 | Page: 5 | Tags: News 

MID-LOTHIAN AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER

... celebrated in such situations much sooner than that immortalised by Burns, “ when aye a rantin Kirn wi’ gat, and just in Hallowe'en it fell that night.” Most of the bean crop is still a field. Tho grain markets have run up with extraordinary rapidity to ...

Published: Thursday 06 October 1853
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 494 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

THE LANDS & PEOPLE ON THE RIBBLE BEFORE THE CONQUEST

... canon, promulgaeted in the reign of Edgar, end In those of A. Ansiem., The Saxons were guilty of it. N9ay, in my youth on Halloween, under the name of Teanila flires, I have seen the hills throughout the country illuminated with sacred flames, and I can ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1856
Newspaper: Preston Chronicle
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 10294 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

GREENOCK AND COAST NEWS

... GREENOCK AND COAST NEWS. (From the Greenock Advertiser of Yesterday.) Hallowe'en was celebrated on Friday evening, and was made the o&casion of much disgraceful uproar and wanton destruction of property. The Low Gourock. Road in particular was literally ...

Published: Wednesday 05 November 1856
Newspaper: Glasgow Herald
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 7 | Tags: News