Friday, September 11th, 2009 at
5:25 am
|
This Halloween Fortune Telling Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:
by Mary E. Blain
|
| Apple seeds act as charms on Halloween.
Stick one on each eyelid and name one "Home" and the other "Travel."
- If seed named travel stays on longer, you will go on a journey before year expires.
- If " Home" clings better, you will remain home.
Again, take all the apple seeds, place them on back of outspread left hand.
With loosely clenched right hand strike palm of left.
This will cause some, if not all, of seeds to fall.
- Those left on hand show number of letters you will receive the coming fortnight.
- Should all seeds drop, you must wait patiently for your mail.
Put twelve apple seeds carefully to one side
while you cut twelve slips of blank paper ex
actly alike.
- on one side of each write name of friend.
- Turn them all over with blanks uppermost and mix them so that you will not know which is which;
- then, holding seeds in your left hand ; repeat :
" One I love,
Two I love,
Three I love I say;
Four I love with all my heart
Five I cast away.
Six he loves,
Seven she loves,
Eight they both love;
Nine he comes,
Ten he tarries,
Eleven he courts and
Twelve he marries."
Stop at each line to place a seed on a paper,
and turn slip over to discover name of one you love or cast away.
Continue matching apple seeds with papers as you count, until all twelve seeds and twelve papers are used. |
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at
1:21 pm
 |
This Halloween Costume Idea is from the 1923 Dennison's Bogie Book.
Get your own Digital Edition of this vintage Halloween book by CLICKING HERE.
Or, you can look for an Original or reproduction print copy of Dennison's Bogie Books on eBay.
|
The Witch Costume requires the following materials:
- 4 folds No. 65 Orange Crepe Paper
- 2 folds No. 12 Black Crepe Paper
- 1 fold No. 11 White Crepe Paper
- 1 sheet No. 12 Black Mat Stock
About making costumes using crepe paper:
Most costumes are made over a muslin foundation to which the crepe paper is sewed or pasted. The materials are inexpensive and very stricking and unusual costumes may be made with very little work.
The "slip-over" costume is very popular as it may be worn over any simple clothing and quickly removed.
The foundation is a full width of crepe paper cut out either oblong or rounding for the neck so that it will hang straight down front and back.
Turn under the outer edge from shoulder to waist line both front and back and make one or two tucks to make the waist the correct width.
To this foundation are added ruffles, fringe or cut-out designs. |
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at
5:38 am
|
This Halloween Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:
by Mary E. Blain
|
In this game the seeker for a prize is guided
from place to place by doggerel's as the fol-
lowing, and is started on his hunt with this
rhyme :
" Perhaps you'll find it in the air ;
If not, look underneath your chair."
Beneath his chair he finds the following:
" No, you will not find it here ;
Search the clock and have no fear."
Under the clock he finds:
" You will have to try once more ;
Look behind the parlor door."
Tied to the door-knob he discovers:
" If it's not out in the stable
Seek beneath the kitchen table."
Under the kitchen table he finds another
note, which reads:
" If your quest remains uncertain,
You will find it 'neath a curtain."
And here his quest is rewarded by finding
the prize. |
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Monday, September 7th, 2009 at
5:29 am
|
This Halloween Fortune Telling Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:
by Mary E. Blain
|
| A maid and youth each places a chestnut to roast on fire, side by side.
If one hisses and steams, it indicates a fretful temper in owner of chestnut;
if both chestnuts equally misbehave it augurs strife.
If one or both pop away, it means separation;
but if both burn to ashes tranquilly side by side, a long life of undisturbed happiness will be lot of owners.
These portentous omens are fitly defined in
the following lines:
" These glowing nuts are emblems true
Of what in human life we view;
The ill-matched couple fret and fume,
And thus in strife themselves consume;
Or from each other wildly start,
And with a noise forever part.
But see the happy, happy pair,
Of genuine love and truth sincere;
With mutual fondness while they burn,
Still to each other kindly turn;
And as the vital sparks decay,
Together gently sink away;
Till life's fierce trials being past,
Their mingled ashes rest at last." |
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 at
5:20 am
|
This Halloween Fortune Telling Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:
by Mary E. Blain
|
Dumb Cake
Each one places handful of wheat flour on
sheet of white paper and sprinkles it over with a pinch of salt.
Some one makes it into dough, being careful not to use spring water.
Each rolls up a piece of dough, spreads it out thin and flat, and marks initials on it with a new pin.
The cakes are placed before fire, and all take seats as far from it as possible.
This is done before eleven p. m., and between that time and midnight each one must turn cake once.
When clock strikes twelve future wife or husband of one who is to be married first will enter and lay hand on cake marked
with name.
Throughout whole proceeding not a word is spoken. Hence the name " Dumb Cake."
(If supper is served before 11:30, "Dumb Cake" should be reserved for one of the After-Supper Tests.) |
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 at
3:20 am
|
This Halloween Fortune Telling Game and MANY others can be found in the following book available from Amazon.com:
by Mary E. Blain
|
- Open English walnuts
- remove meat
- in each half shell fasten short pieces of differently colored Christmas candles
- each of which is to be named for a member of party
- These nut-shell boats may also be made by pouring melted wax into halves of walnut-shells in which are short strings for wicks.
- after lighting, set afloat in large pan or tub of water
The behavior of these tiny boats reveals future of those for whom they are named.
- If two glide on together, their owners have a similar destiny
- if they glide apart, so will their owners.
- Sometimes candles will huddle together as if talking to one another, while perchance one will be left alone, out in the cold, as it were.
- Again, two will start off and all the rest will closely follow.
- The one whose candle first goes out is destined to be old bachelor or maid.
|
Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress.
US $14.75
