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SCOTLAND

... constables, were readiness act requisite; but their'services were rendered unnecessary; and the streets were soon, considering Hallowe'en, unusually quiet. It was mentioned from the hustings that there were 100,000 people present, when the assembly assented ...

Published: Saturday 06 November 1819
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 1709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Midsummer Day, and St, John the Baptist,

... Allhallows Eve, the Scottish observances and superstitions connected with which have been so beautifully treated Burns In his Halloween. This holiday in olden time was equally reverenced by the Christian and the Moorish inhabitants Andalusia ; and such of our ...

CHRISTMAS-KEEPING

... still thrown, the pod with nine peas hid over the door, and all the little ceremonies s6 admirably depicted by Bums his Hallowe'en still practised. These, however, are now generally looked upon as a diversion, and few have faith in their efficacy « for ...

Published: Tuesday 18 December 1821
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1991 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CHRISTMAS KEEPING

... still thrown, tbe pod with vine pease bid over the door, and nil tbe little ceremonies so admirably depicted by Barm in his Hallowe'en still practised. Them, however, are now generally looked upon aa a diversion, and few have faith ia tbeir efficacy, for ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1821
Newspaper: Lancaster Gazette
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2129 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... Mer'mmorphoses not Fabulous.-XIII. The Unieorn Ba nd the dermaid.-.,XIV. John Brown, or the House in Muir. M, -aV. The Lemur, a Halloween Divertimento.-XVL. Trans. wi ationfroam Buchiann.-XVIL. Stanzas to an Infant.-XVIII. m flani)r Extpeditlnlg the Mail from ...

sr. f|T(IF. Ctni.tsi

... Address the Statue his Son*Nil. Vales o* the Dail Days. 'Pule 1. The Tanners inlet or. ate an the Ghost XIII. The Temur. A Halloween Divertimento*XlV. Poems. Hy Bernard Barton. XV. the Cockney School. No- 7. Hu l 1 Art Tore*XVl. I.*Knvov*Vt 11. lieklcr ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1822
Newspaper: Carlisle Patriot
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2346 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Advertisements & Notices

... the r-ligh- e landers,-illustrated iii Narrations of Ghosts, k'aries, Brslk - nies, Water Kelpies, Spunkies, Witchcraft, Hallowe'en, e Christmas, Fasten's Eve, Weddings, Wakes, &c. S SCORlESBI' DISCOVEBJRS IA' OsgNaA'fl? This day is published, and sold ...

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... touch- ing picture of Tur Gamesrer,” by Ars. Cornwell Baron Wilson ; avid the characteristic tale of “Tue Turer a tale of Halloween, by David , Esq. a8 specimens of the work—to which we shall return agaio and again, to cull poetical flowers of richest fragrance ...

Published: Tuesday 07 November 1826
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 4571 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

the three, damsel*

... fol Jean, and my fairy Lilias,” said the v Cc ouutess vf Moray to her laughiog, happy come hither, my ihiren, and § your Halloween with me. ft is true 1 have not prepared the charms of the mght, nor am I ready to join you iu the incantatious of the seasun ...

Published: Tuesday 07 November 1826
Newspaper: Chester Courant
County: Cheshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 383 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MISCKLLANIES

... confusion was worse confounded in the | devoted domicile. Friday ae’nnight being the high featival of spirits, witches, &c. (Halloween), the | Leith ghost is said to have exceeded ail former, expisits. These cantrips, it is hardly necessary to | add, occurred ...

Published: Saturday 22 November 1828
Newspaper: Westmorland Gazette
County: Westmorland, England
Type: Article | Words: 2424 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LITERATURE: THE GEM

... nod his wife stopped there a few days with Burke, in the last week October. Saw Bkirke on Friday the .’list of October ;on Hallowe’en night. Saw him go past with a woman sometime in middle of the day. She thinks about one or two o’clock. Witness was then ...

the old woman was, who said that she was too impudent, and she had turned her out. The old woman

... Haire, or Hare, an associate, became acquainted with the prisoners about year ago. Was in a public bouse along with Burke Halloween day. Burke told witness to down to bis bouse to see the t/utt isnil got, that was going to take the doctors ; that there ...