... HALLOWEEN. To the Editor of the Fife Herald. Sir,—l am one of those, and their numbers are daily decreasing, who arc attached to old customs—not because I think them in all instances better than those of the present day ; but are associated in my mind ...

... BLACKWOOD & CONSTABLE. At Halloween, which is now approaching anon, it once was customary, and is still occasionally practised, to burn nuts, with the view of ascertaining the force and bearing of certain likings or antipathies, which were supposed to ...

... sitten down, The hearth was sweepit fu* canty and clean, When the cadgie laird o' Windlestnetown, Cam’ in for till haud his halloween. The gudewife beck’d, and the carl boo’d; In ower to the deis the laird gaed he s The twankies a’ they glowr’d like wud. ...

... directed to investments in land. All Hallows Ere or Halloween—This day (31st October) is AU Hallow, eve or Halloween, and will of course be observed among those who are superstitious. To hard Halloween is in Scotland to observe the childish or idle rites ...

... hoary sod? flh mere, I the meow that moue* revealed Ills brew. as &easy he sealed Ms ernes vikh oaths whist God. Twos ee Halloween sight that ship had toes drives Resistlessly on to the sereilees roan ; Teas the night that the doors by old wets To to sod ...

... they did not interfere with the electors in any way, but left them to exercise their own unbiassed judgment. j EAST WEMYSS. Halloween Ceremony—The following occurrence Mid to have taken place in a village on the South Coaat of Fife, noted for celebrated college ...

... • order on the clean hearthstane, The lnppies three are rang'd.** It manifest that in all these inimitable descriptions Hallowe'en incantations, the virtue solely in the number three. Nor are our English neighbours behind us in this belief— Thrice the ...

... earls sleeve in. In order on the glean hearthstone The luggira three ere rased. It is manifest that in ell these Mailable Hallowe'en incantations. the virtee Is solely number aser. Nor Oat EmgUgh neighbours bend= in this belief Thrice the brindled est ...

... believed &Lail that. Certainty. mpNed \lge,l cannot instanos, my father knew Vary the oweethemet of Robert BUMP, who, on Hallowe'en. did many things to kn..w her fortune. bra Nays got a bad omen: and so It turned out. Wilson then 'baked who lie thought ...

... thus raising the status of our burgh, and making us somewhat resemble our fellow-subjects. Better late thrive than never. —Hallowe'en. —The charms connected with this awful night, received due attention in this quarter. Many were the gatherings round the ...

... final decision, as the writer stares it. might with as much propriety iml truth have acquainted the public, that, on last Hallowe'en, covey of Mother Carey's chickens had stolen the Barn Rock, and set it up as a resting-place the middle of the great Atlantic ...

... great deal jollity indulged in; and the genius of Burns might find ample scope for delineating another picture comical as Halloween. But it must be confessed (hit much that is evil and contaminating to good morals often indulged also ; and, therefore, we ...