Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-26
I dreamed dream and saw my own sweet

bride. -
In connection with this spell I am reminded OF
curious circumstance which came under my
| immediate observation. While visiting my
younger brother in Newton, Mass, some years
| ago, my sister-in-law complained at the break
fast table on the morning after Hallow Eve that
she had spent most wretched night. On my
inquiring the cause, she stated that she had had
a strangely vivid and
MOST SINGULAR DREAM.
from which she had awakened with feeling of
the most distressing exhaustion. She dreamt
that she was walking along he bank of river,
when a gen Item IN whose face she saw as plainly
and distinctly as she had ever seen anything and
whose features indeiibly imprinted upon
her memory, fell from bridge erected across
she plunged INTO the water and, after des-
perate struggle. succeeded in inging him
safely ashore, whereupon she awoke, feeling as
much exhausted as il she had actually passed
through such thrilling experience.
In less than three months from that time NM
brother siCkened and died. His young WiktSHV
continued 10 reside in the same place witKsh her
two children. Four years later again paid her
visit, and while guest at her house learned
that bachelor friend OF mine would be in the
neighboring city OF Boston on certain date,
and telegraphed him TO visit me at Newton L
met him at the railway station and drove him to
my sister n-law' 5 residence.
1t was beautiful summer evening, and look
ing from the carriage we approached the
house we saw her watering some flowers on the
lawn. At sight of her my friend seemed so
much agiteted that anxiously inquired tn.
reason of his discompoSure, and asked If he had
ever seen the lady before. He had bare time to
answer Eyes, once, and will tell you all about
it when l have Opportunity before we had
alighted and were in her presence. To my amaze
melt she seemed quite much discomposed as
my friend had been.
He subsequently told me that on the very
Hallow Eve when my sister-in-law had dreamJ
the dream above mentioned he had tried the
spell OF the glass OF water and the silver of wood
recommended by my ''Old Father Times Bum
die OF Faggots.' which I had loaned him, and
that he had dreamt of falling off brid re into q
river and of being rescued by the lady in whose
house we then were and whom he saw in his
vision as distinctly as when he beheld her that
night the lawn. l also learned from my
sister in law that nv friend was the very man
wohom she had dreamd of rescuing on that same
Haliow eve.
TIL. story of this most peculiar coincidence.
which is literally true exactly as stated is made
complete by the fact that this pair Of dreamers
were made man and wife before another Hallow
Eve
In folklore book called 'sYe Mysterie of We
Wytchecraft, which is the oldest in my colIec-
ton, there is given a charm 'by which maid
may know If ye man she loves be true To
perform this the maid is directed to pluck at
midnight on All Hallow Eve
TWO MONTHLY ROSES
with long stems, naming one for herself and the
other for her lover. She must then go directly
to her sleeping room without speaking to any
one, and kneeiing beside her bed must Irvine
the stems of the two roses together and then
repeat the following lines, meanwhile gazing
intently upon the rose named for her lover:
Irvine. twine and intertwne,
II his heart be kind and true,
Deeper grow his roses hue.'
II her swain be faithful the color OF the rose
represent ng him will grow darker and more in
tense. or all the many Hallow Eve spells and
charms associated with nuts one OF the Oldest is
that which prevails in some of England's north
ern counties, and which is TO the effect that il
young man or woman will go at midnight on
Hailow Eve to walnut tree and walk around it
three times, crying out each time, LET him Tor
herr that is to be my true love bring me some
walnuts, ~ the future wfe or husband will be
seen in the tree gathering its fruit The poet
Gay thus refers, in his "Pastorals. - to this
custom:
Last Hallow Eve sought walnut tree,
In hopes my true loves face that might see:
apace,
Then in the tree saw my true loves FACET
very old Hallow Eve divination formerly
much practiced By English rustics to tell from
what quarter of the compass the future husband
wife will come, is performed by stealing ont
unooserved at midnight, plucking a small lock
Of hair from ones head and casting it to the
breeze. Whatever direction il is blown toward
is believed to be the location of the future mat
rimonial partner. This divination Is also mem
toned by Gay in his '.Pastorais,' as follows:
II pluck this lock of hair from out my head
To tell whence comes the one that shall wed.
Fly, siiken hair. fly all the world around
Until you reach the spot where my true love is
found.'
There can be no question that many of the OBJ
servances of Haliow Eve are derived from those
of the old Roman festival Of Pomona, when d.
vinatinns and the consulting OF oracles and
omens were universally practiced. Lighting