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[4] As with the start of the celebration of Allhallowtide in the rest of Christendom, church bells were rung in order to comfort Christian souls in the intermediate state.
Older girls would place these apples under their pillows and hope to dream of the person whom they would one day marry.
The goal of the game was to catch the apples in your mouth, with hot wax being the penalty for slowness or inaccuracy.
A quantity of large apples are thus disposed of the sale of which is dignified by the term Allan Market.There are a number of divination games recorded including the throwing of walnuts in fires to predict the fidelity of partners, and the pouring of molten lead into cold water as a way of predicting the occupation of future husbands, the shape of the solidified lead somehow indicating this.