When no definite time was set for trying the charm, it was
simply put under "projects."
303. A Halloween custom is to fill a tub with water and drop into it as
many apples as there are young folks to try the trick. Then each one must
kneel before the tub and try to bite the apples without touching them
with the hands. The one who bites one first will marry first.
_Alabama._
304. On Halloween hang an apple by the door just the height of the chin.
Rub the chin with saliva, stand about six inches from the apple, and hit
the chin against the apple. If it sticks to the chin, you will be
married, and your true love will stick to you.
_St. John, N.B._
305. A girl goes to a field on Halloween at midnight to steal cabbages.
The first one whom she meets on her return will be her husband.
_Boston, Mass._
306. On Halloween at midnight a young lady in her night-dress walks
backward into the garden and pulls up a cabbage. She will see her future
husband over her shoulder.
_Eastern Massachusetts._
307. I wind, I wind, my true love to find,
The color of his hair, the clothes he'll wear,
The day he is married to me.
Throw a ball of yarn into a barn, old house, or cellar, and wind,
repeating the above lines, and the true love will appear and wind with
you. To be tried at twelve o'clock at night, on Halloween.
_Maine._
308. Shortly before midnight a pure white bowl is procured, that has
never been touched by any lips save those of a new-born infant.
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