Ruth Edna Kelley

“ Love's sweetest rosy apple
On Love's uncertain sea."
MUNKITTRICK: Hallowe'en Wish.
An apple is peeled all in one piece, and the paring swung three
times round the head and dropped behind the left shoulder. If it
does not break, and is looked at over the shoulder it forms the
initial of the true sweetheart's name.
"I pare this pippin round and round again,
My sweetheart's name to flourish on the plain:
I fling the unbroken paring o'er my head.
A perfect 'L' upon the ground is read."
GAY: Pastorals.
In the north of England was a unique custom, "the scadding of
peas." ”

“ Manx fairies too dwell in the middle world, since they
are fit for neither heaven nor hell. Even now Manx people think
they see circles of light in the late October midnight, and little
folk dancing within.
Longest of all in Man was Sauin (Samhain) considered New Year's
Day. According to the old style of reckoning time it came on
November 12.
"To-night is New Year's night.
Hogunnaa!"
Mummers' Song.
As in Scotland the servants' year ends with October.
New Year tests for finding out the future were tried on Sauin. ”

“ Avilion means "apple-island." It was like the Hesperides of Greek
mythology, the western islands where grew the golden apples of
immortality.
In Cornwall after the sixth century, the sun-god became St.
Michael, and the eastern point where he appeared St. Michael's
seat.
"Where the great vision of the guarded mount
Looks toward Namancos, and Bayona's hold."
MILTON: Lycidas.
As fruit to Pomona, so berries were devoted to fairies. They would
not let any one cut a blackthorn shoot on Hallowe'en. ”