Saints, Souls, and Haints: Still Nuts
Jonkheer L. C. van Panhuys, in Proceedings, Vol. 2 (p. 698, 1904), from the Internationaler Amerikanisten-Kongress held in Stuttgart in …
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Saints, Souls, and Haints: Nuts
Nuts, being a delicacy associated with autumn, seem to naturally be part of the Halloween pantry of the past. And …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Apples
In Rustic Speech and Folk-lore (1911, p. 299-300), Elizabeth Mary Wright describes a Halloween custom we still practice: October 31 …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Cabbages and Rings
In Rustic Speech and Folk-lore (1913, p. 300), Elizabeth Mary Wright wrote: In parts of Ireland a dish called colcannon, …
Saints, Souls, and Haints: Eggs
From Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volume 4, published in 1896, by the American Folklore Society, folk beliefs about …
