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... an evidence that these seaward birds were driven inland by the storm that has caused such direful effects on the coast. Halloween, so humourously described Burns, was not observed in Falkirk this year. It passed over in silence. No duckin ...
... success. I lately observed in your paper a paragraph from your Falkirk correspondent concerning the quiet manner in which Hallowe'en had passed in that town, ascribing the discontinuing of the old superstitious practices wont to be upheld on that famous ...
... without money and without price, if necessary. A Hallowe'en Frolic and its Consequence.—ln village, not twenty miles south of Stirling, two girls met in a house for the purpose of going together on Hallowe'en to the garden of an old maid—an essential circumstanc ...
... furor soon exhausts itself, and then there succeeds something like a ten months' calm, with only a partial breeze about Halloween, before the fires arc lighted for the winter. ...
... leain him mair At c'en to keep his am fireside ! Glasgow. Robert M'Nicol. * Craisrnethimt Castle, near Lanark, t Bein» Hallowe'en, the nicht the witches arc said to haud an anniversary. ...
... neighbourhood of Crieff, about eight days ago, which weighed 2 lbs. 2 oz., the largest ever seen in the district. Comrie.—Halloween Fair.—This market was held as usual on the last Wednesday of October, and it was a pleasing feature these dull times to observe ...
... was effected without the occurrence of any other casualty.— Berwick aiul Kelso Warder. Pedestrianism Extraordinary. —On Halloween a farmer in the parish of Kirkgunzcon, had soveral of his neighbours to assist him in smearing his sheep—a friendly practice ...
... IRE. To Sold, by Pnbße Roop, in Roaasu’a Tanmuxcß Correa Boon, Alloa, on Satcodax, Aeput, 1853, ABeantifnl EngraTing of HALLOWEEN IN IRELAND, 33 inebet by inebet; Hnhetantial Roeewood Frame. Sale at One o’clock To be Sold at eame‘thae S Inbrnry Sword ...
... was surprised and delighted with the sight of her own face. How must a rustic, for instance, have been electrified with “Hallowe'en,” “The Cottar’s Saturday Night,” “Holy Fair!” Here were scenes in which he had himself mingled. He could recognise them ...
... from school, who is a mediey—like a little man lighted from the inside with a half-penny candle. He has a strong smell of Hallowe'en about him. John A. Houston sale-room pictures in all, of clean order. Horatio M‘Culloch has a beautifal view of Loch Awe ...
... necessarily bad customs. It matters not although they partake a little of the grotesque—so much the better. We would like to see Hallowe’en again revived over the length and breadth of the land, and we could even imagine our legislators doing a more foolish piece ...
... vigil (or the night be- fore it) was cunsequently led All Saints Even, or All Hallow Even, which Inst is contracted into Hallowe'en. This festival was celebrated annually, throughout the Church, on the Ist of November. Without pausing to trace the steps ...