... reiminined in I the house about live uiiiutes, anil then weiit home. Was in Connaway's betweell eiglt and nine o'cloek on Halloween nright. There were Connaway anid his wufe, Win. Burke, a;nd John £roggan, and another lad wioi lie did not know, I the old ...

... eforced to consider his very confident assertions, like .the whistling of Lord Lennox' march by Burns's vderider of the Hallowe'en superstitions, as some-. . thing very much like a device to keep up. his own ecourage. eSince writingi the above we see ...

... the burning of a brace of hazel-nuts,-in the pulling of a few oaten stalks,-in the grounds of a tea-cup,-above all, in tie Hallowe'en egg, ill which, in a different sense from that embodied in the allegosy of Cowley, Theilc curious eye s Througlh the firnm ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... spot where calves were sacrificed to propitiate favonr for the rest. I have aided in carrying the lighted wisp of straw on Halloween, round some neighbours corn field, crying out Defend this crop from weed. And this was the worship of Bel. Sa general were ...

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... telegraphic news to the 30th of August. The following ships have arrived: The Patri- arch, Sept. 6;; La Hogue, Sept. 7; the Halloween, Sept. 8; the Dorothy, Sept. 13; the Banian, Sept. 14; the Abergeldie Oct. Ci. The Nineveh, Capt. Bmraptt, left for England ...

... WA]D T'EJEGRAVEJLC NEWS. CELEBRATION OF HALLOWEEN AT BALMORAL CASTLE. The old Scottishj festival of II Moweown has of late years been celebrated on a scale of groat splendour at Banlmoral Castle. In many parts of the country, especially in the lowlands ...

... the deeply serious and important a duties of leading the Cheshire hunt. He' has never thought that it was All Saints' Day -Halloween; probably does not know, or has forgotten, that them is a ?? tom in Cheshire called souling; has not learnt from dire ...

... published in some of )r Tuesday's papers refered to the revival of d interest throughout Scotland in the old festival le of Hallowe'en, and, which was stranger Lt still, said that this was largely due to the 11 effective manner in which it has of late ...