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1. Customs Connected with Halloween (continued)

   

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   apple and without breaking the skin to throw the skin across your shoulder and you will get the initials of the name the person you are going to marry. Another very old trick that girls would play was to riddle oats between two doors in the name of the devil and if anyman came and took the riddle out of the riddlers hand that would be the person she would be married to. If you sweep a street in the name of the devil and somebody takes the brush off you it indicates the same as in the case of riddling the oats.

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2. Customs Connected with Halloween

   

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   There used to be a lot of tricks and customs associated with Hallow E'en night. Long ago the grown up people used to take a lot of interest in this festival but it is only a children's feast now.
   One very common trick that was

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