The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-31
CHARMS FOR HALO OWEN
THEY WILL PROPHESY FOR YOU
YOUR FATE.

All Saints festival is set upon the last
night of October, familiarly known as
Halloween AS fires used to be built on
this night, it is thought to be an old
Druid worshipful custom, but it dates
back of Druidical times, when men were
pure nature worshipers, believing the
great god of all COOS to have his dwell
ing place in the sun, and from this to
dispense all good.
Upon this night all the witches, devils
and fairies that ever existed in the mag
ination of man hold high carnival, ard
what they don't do, the boys and girls
try to do in their place.
in making the Halloween party don't
forget that the wishing cake with the
ring in it must be baked; the apples and
nuts provided as we'll as lead and a brass
key. And of all essentials, cabbage, OF
its near relative, a kale patch, should be
nearby, where all can repair, and either
bllndfolded or walking backward enter the
patch cropping or stumbling over the first
cabbage head they touch. They must
pull it up and abide by it's decision. If
the head is solid, a pleasant, healthy life
companion; If the stock is straight, a
handsome one; if crooked ugly and if
much dirt adheres to the roots, a wealthy
one is their lot.
The nuts are to be- named for man and
maid. and put upon the Goals or stove.
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apples are for the counting of seeds, the
pairing before a glass at midnight alone
and for attaching to string, hanging up
naming or wishing over them, and as
they bob to and fro, catching them in
your mouth. HS who catches gets the
wish or the one he named.
Some man is chosen to cut the cake,
and divide among the girls. The one get
ting the piece with the ring will have all
of her wishes gratifed the following year.
Inc rest must retire to some room or
place alone, and eat their slice of cake
and if the Halloween spirits do what is
expected of them to do, the wrath of
husband or future fate should appear
The lead is to be melted in an old skillet
and poured through the ring of the kew.
the person holding the key being the one
testing the future occupation of herself
or husband AS the lead dropping into a
pan of water, if dropped with a small
spoon, will take a variety of shapes. it
VIII take many guesses to name them
Alright.
Other charms are: Going alone to the
barn and shaking the grain sieve three
times around, invoking your future fate
to appear; going TO some we'll pit or
chasm, and throwing over a ball of blue
yarn, wind it up. If it catches, call '"Who
holds?" ard if the eli below supposed TO
be holding it does his duty he will an
N"SI NiiC Aie'AiC VI JOOI lONSp placlQg Two
cambria needles in a pan of water and
naming them. If they hoat together, then
the ones for whom they We're named
would live lovingly together, bat if one
sinks, thai one is unfaithful; if both sink
both are unfaithful. Put three pans near
together, shifting their position OCCASION
ally. into one put clear water into an
other roily water, and leave the other
empty. One at time, blindfoded. the
seekers come in, putting the left hand into
one OF the pans. If into the empty one
that person is not to marry; if into the
clear water, the choice will be a young
person; if into the roily water, one past
youth
The dumb cake is mixed by all. Each
girl and man adds a certain share of salt
ana meal and Water to the mixture with
the left hand, pats his own cake into
shape, picks the initial letter Of his name
with new pin upon it, and sets it to
bake at nearly II, turning it once in 81
lence. AT u, the wrath OF the love of
the one to be first married comes in and
touches that PERSONS cake
before they part, as Burns says Ca
reer1n aft flu blyth,'' the hostess should
| present each one with a slip of paper and
| nine pills to swallow on retiring. These
| pills are rolled from a mixture of sugar
| butter, grated nutmeg walnut and hazel
| nut. The slip of paper tells them what
| else to do:
| Turn your shoes toward the street,
| Leave your garterS on your feet;
| Put your stockings on your head
| And dream of the one that you will wed