 The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with. Its being big or little, straight or crooked, is prophetic of the size and shape of the grand...  The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Page 371edited by - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Scottish uses - Scottish poetry - 1808 - 228 pages
...Robert, the great deliverer of his country, were Earls of Carrick. t The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, haud in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : its being big or little, straight... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 274 pages
...Robert, the great deliverer of his country, were earls of Carrick. ' The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : Its being big or little, straight... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1824 - 292 pages
...Robert, the great deliverer of his country, were Earls of Carrick. 5 The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : Its being big or little, straight... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 464 pages
...Robert, the great deliverer of his country, were earls of Carrick. 4 The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant, of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : its being big or little, straight... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...mentioned by bums, in a note to his poem on " Hallow E'en," that " The first ceremony of Hallow E'en is pulling each a stock or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with. Its being big or little, straight... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1826 - 288 pages
...Robert, the great deliverer of his country, were earls of Carrick. t The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet witii. Its lu-<' f big or little, straight... | |
 | 1859 - 736 pages
...similar to the ceremonies of All Hallow Even, and which are thus described by that transcendent poet of Nature's making, Burns, in a note to his poem, "All...festival is pulling each a stock or plant of kail. They n»»t go out, hand-in-hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet »ith ; its being big or... | |
 | 1831 - 426 pages
...Robert the great deliverer of his country, were Earls of Carricfc. t The first ceremony of Halloween, is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go ont, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : Its being big or little, straight... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...mentioned by Burns, in n note to his poem on ' Hallow E'en,' that ' The first cere.mony of Hallow E'en is pulling each a stock or plant of kail. They must go out hand and hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with. Its being big or little, traight... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - Ballads, Scots - 1834 - 370 pages
...the door, Wi' cannie care, they've placed them To lie that night. * The first ceremony of Halloween is, pulling each a stock, or plant of kail. They must go out, hand in hand, with eyes shut, and pull the first they meet with : its being big or little, straight... | |
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