The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-10-31
ALL HALLOWEEN MlenT.
Some of the Games That Are Played
by the Young People.

Some of the Games That Are Played
by the Young People.
It is said that more than twelve
centuries ago Pope Boniface w, in.
stituted the festival of All-Saints,
or All-Hallows, November /, in
commemoration of the noble army
of saints and martyrs to whom no
particular day was assigned.
The feast was celebrated, we are
further told, in the Pantheon at
Rome, and about $50 was estab-
lished beyond overthrow by Pope
Gregory. Aside from it's religious
features, the vigil Of All Halloween
has long been observed with games,
handed from sire to son; antedating
Christianity, indeed. as the pagan
festival of Pomona, the Goddess of
Gardens and Fruit Trees, was held
in ancient Greece upon November
1, and its advent was hailed with
mysterious games, in which the rus
set and golden harvest of nuts and
apples played an important part.
Among the traditions of the day
it is maintained that we can look
into the future and learn what ones
condition of life is to be.
Young people can invoke the ap-
partitions of their future spouses, if
only they have courage; wealth and
happiness, prosperity, marriage or
single blessedness is foretold in va
rious ways, and the youth and
maiden anxious to peer into the
dim and misty future can try some
of the following on All Halloween.
GAMES.
The simplest and best known of
these games consists in learning the
initial of your future wife or hus-
band through the medium of an
apple pairing. Pare an apple as
smoothly and evenly as possible,
and in long piece, without break
ing it. Stand before a mirror, twist
the peeling thrice around your head,
and with the last twist drop it over
your left shoulder; as it falls upon
the floor behind you, the initial it
forms is that of the one you will
marry.
Another way to find the name is
to write several names of persons
whom you like of the opposite sex
on separate slips of paper; fold
these papers and place them inside
of small balls of dough made of
cornmeal wet with water until it
will roll into balls. Have a bowl
of water ready, and drop the balls
all together into the water. In a
little while one of the balls will
burst open and the paper it contains
will float to the top. This settles
your fate; the name upon that slip
of paper is the name of your future
wife or husband. Leave one of the
slips blank, and if your future
spouse is still stranger this paper
will come first.
Place three saucers, one contain
ing dry meal, one water and the
third empty, in row on a table;
blindfold the person whose fortune
is to be told, lead him or her to the
table, and instruct that a finger is
to be placed in one of the saucers.
If he or she choose the one con-
tanning meal, wealth and happiness
is the future portion, if the one with
water is touched, it signifies mar
riage; but the empty one-alas!
single misery awaits the unfortu-
nate swain or damsel. The saucers
should be replaced in different order
between each trial.
FOR MAIDENs ONLY.
For maidens alone a pudding is
made, and has dropped into it while
stirring a silver thimble, gold ring
and bit of ivory. She to whom
the ring falls will be a bride before
twelve months have passed the
thimble comes to the "uncrowned
queen" whose sceptre fails to reach
her grasp, and the fortunate fair
who finds the ivory within her por-
ton will travel to the uttermost
ends of the earth. After the eating
of this pudding, let each maiden go
in silence to separate room, and
at the witching hour of midnight,
in perfect darkness, stand before a
mirror and eat an apple. She will
surely see the face Of the one she
loves best looking over her shoulder,
i. e., if she sees anything under
such benighted conditions.
The naming of chestnuts and
roasting them, noting which pops
from its satiny shell first; the roast
ing an apple whole, and eating every
bit of it, core, seeds and all, count
ing each seed with the jingle,
One love, two love, three love, l say,
Four love with all my heart,
Five cast away;
Six he loves, seven she loves.
Eight they both love.