The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-31
TODAY IN HISTORY
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 81. 1910.
Halloween.
There is no night In tho year which
the popular imagination has stamped
with a more peculiar character than the
as All Hsllows exc. or Halloween. II Is
relic OF pagan times, which Is observed
all over the world. in all tho so-cailod
civilized and unciviliIed countries;
The leading idea respecting Hallow-
cen is that II Ia the time OF all others
when supernatural influences prevail;
!, is ,ha nigh, set apart for the uni
versal walking abroad OF spirits. both
OF the visible and invisible world.
The celebration OF Halloween in Scot
land Ireland and In certain parts OF
ancient date as to be counted among folk
customs.
Robert Burns tells us that Hallow-
cen Is the night when witches, devils
and other mischief making beings are
abroad on their banefu errands and the
fairies arc said on that night. TO hold
grand anniversary.
Upon that night. when fairies light
On Cassiles Dowans dance,
Or over the lays In splendid blaze.
On spriShtly courserS prance.'
II was among the Scottish peasantry
the ancient Halloween customs were
most earnestly entered into.
It's now the very wltchng hour OF
On All Saints day every household
built It's bonfire al nightfal, They made
Sirdle OF fame abou, the hills OF Scot
land The first ceremony OF the even
bage The lad and lass were to go
hand in hand with eyes closed TO the
garden and pull the first STOCK thar
came In their way. Its being big or lit
OF the size and form OF the object OF
their affection-the future husband or
wife.
when the stars shoot
And the owls hoo,.
And bats fly In and out.
When the fire burns blue
And the candle, too.
Witches are about"
torches and lenterns till midnight. when
Ihe ialries were supposed 10 be abroad.
strange methods OF diyinaIion were re-
sorted TO by young and old.
brated in America. formerly mostly in
country homes. but OF late years quito
as frequently in towns and cities
Burning the nuts, snap apple. duck
filed with water and picking them up
IN the mouth. also picking corn up
rom inc bottom OF the tub. at one time
were favorite Halloween sports and imi-
tations Of them are still TO some extent
preserved in certain localities.
III is an old superstition that chill
possessed Of peculiar faculties OF fore
sight Such persons are rcputed to be
gifted with the ability to see the future
with a clear .vIsIon-they are sccro.
set up as a prophet and the wise man
of the tribe-to him all homage was
due.
History records that II often hap
Pcned that such D person was not only
seer OF the tribe, but the chief and
the ruler, IL was from the ranks OF
those OF the tribe, II any there hap
cen that the rulers were recruited
There liz another ancient supersti-
ton with reference 10 Halloween which
has been handed down from the days OF
antiquity, and that Is that every dream
which ono may have during their sleep
on THIS particular night Will undoubtedly
come true
maps be termed ''unhalIowed," is to
wet shirt sleeve. hang Il up 10 the 1re
10 dry, and lie in bed watching IL TN
in,dn'ght, when the apparitIon of the in
dlNldual s future partner for life Will
come IN and turn the sleeve. Burns
thus ailudes TO the practice In one OF
his songs;
The last Halloween ] was waukin.
My draukit sark sleeve as VIC ken.
His likeness cam up the house staukin..
ana he very gray brees o. Tam
ANOTHER ceremony much practced on
halloween is that OF the three dishes
lWo OF these are respectively filed with
clean and foul water. and one Is empty |
Ihey are ranged in row, and the par
Ties bindfoldod, one after The other ad
vance and dip their fingers into ono. Jr
they dip into the clean water they arc |
10 marry a maiden: II into the foul wa |
Ter, II widow: II into the empty dish |
me party so dipping is destined TO he |
clther bachelor or an old maid And !
a hundred other games peculiar TO the |
evening VIII be played tonight through
out the world. many of them of a yery.
lion.
October 81. 1857. Connecticuts charter
y dIeScd 10 have been concealed In an |
oak tree. later known as the C.hnrter
oak; II Is the date of The organization
2t the Sons OF Liberty in 1866; the frigaec
thhadolphia was captured by the Tripo-
ltans In lSO3; Nevada was admitted In