Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-25


ONE of the methods of getting advance in
- formation upon the future-which accord
ing to present customs, and for obvious
reasons would not exactly fit in today-was
known as the petticoat spell, tried as a means
band was going to be.
Upon going upstairs for the night the
1nqulSitive party recited this verse:
Halloween cen night go to bed,
put my petticoat under my head
To dream of the living and not of the dead
And dream of the one who am to we'd"
The maiden was then supposed to advance
toward the bureau and lock into the mirror
Then, after preparing to retire. she must walk
to the bed backward and snugly tuck the
garment under her pillow, and she was not to
speak to any one from the time she entered the
room until morning. And the next morning
II the dream pleased her, she probably told
everybody, and If it did not she undoubtedly
kept it to herself.
In an old book, entitled Eye True Arte to
Read We Future" is the following: "If maid
would know We name of We man she n to
marry. let her on an Hallow even steal out to
a lime kim and throw therein clue of blue
yarn still holding to We other end Presently
We end on We kiln will be sharply pulled Then
We maid must say, Who holds?' Whereupon ye
voice of her future husband will pxonounce his
name. both We Christian and We surname"
The only trouble with this method of seek
ing information is to find a lime kiln around
Washington. Years gone by Edward Cooley
had lime plant at Twenty and l.
streets and no doubt there were others not
far distant, but now it might be like hunting
for needle in a haystack. Perhaps it would
be best to try some other way of getting the
desired information
Here is one from "Old Father Times Bundle
of Faggots Neatly Bound Up" in which we are
told that an infalible means of getting a view
OF your future husband or wife is to go to bed
on halloween with glass of water, in which a
small silver of wood has been placed standing
on table by your bedside. In the night YOU
VIII dream of falling from a bridge into a
river and OF being rescued by your future wife
or husband, whom you will see as distinctly
as though viewed with waking ewes
N another old book called eye MYSTERIES of
Ye Wytche Craft" there is given a charm
by which maid may know If We man she
loVeS DE true To perform this the maid is di-
[ecteo 70 pluck at midnight on All Halloweve
Two monthly roses with long stems naming one
Tor herself and the other for her lover SIZE
must then go directly to her sleeping room,
without speaking to any one and kneeling M
SIDE her bed, must Irvine the stems of the two
roses together and then repeat the following
named for her lover:
Irvine, Irvine and intertwine.
Let my love be wholly mine
II his heart be kind and true.
Deeper grow his roses hue
Ii ner swain be faithful the color of the rose
representing him will grow darker and more
intense" %oAo
Or all the many Halloween spells and charms
associated with nuts, one of the Oldest is that
"nlcn prevails In some of Englands northern
counties, and which is to the effect that If a
young man or woman will go at midnight ON
halloween to walnut tree and walk around it
three times, crying out each time LET him Tor
her) that is to be my true love bring me some
walnuts." the future wife or husband yin be
seen In the tree gathering its fruit
IL Is said that If young woman stands be-
lore mirror as the bell tolls midnight she will
see the figure Of her future husband
Inere are several other ways sugges ed for
getting the foregoing information such as
standing before q mirror as the bell tolls mid
night and Of eating an eggshell full of salt. To
NOSE In dead earnest, the writer would re-