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1. Halloween Customs and Games (continued)

   

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   a chair before the fire. They would then sit down by the fire and wait for their future husband to come in to the house and turn it. There wasn't many girls used to do this except girls that would be getting on in years and not getting married.
   There was a certain girl I often heard my father say, that went to the river on Hallowe'en with her shift, brought it home and placed it before the fire to dry. She kept imploring the devil all the time to send in her husband. In he comes and he had a pair of gloves on him, he took one of them off and laid it on the table, before he turned the shift. Then he turned it and went away again forgetting all about

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script