All-Hallows

Women healers put pieces of paschal candles in their cures to give them extra potency. 45 The accuracy of women's predictions, particularly the identification of future spouses, was greatest on St. John's Eve and All Souls 'Night (All-Hallows Eve) in the Catholic calendar, which corresponded to Midsummer's Eve and the Celtic feast of Samhain in the ancient calendar, celebrations of fertility and the harvest. 46

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

The history goes way back of course - after all, it's a celebration of All-Hallows Eve - the vigil of All Saints day.

A season of wonder... Terry Nelson 2006

The history goes way back of course - after all, it's a celebration of All-Hallows Eve - the vigil of All Saints day.

Archive 2006-10-01 Terry Nelson 2006

While puss was beating the billows at sea, poor Whittington was severely beaten at home by his tyrannical mistress the cook, who used him so cruelly, and made such game of him for sending his cat to sea, that at last the poor boy determined to run away from his place, and having packed up the few things he had, he set out very early in the morning on All-Hallows day.

The Blue Fairy Book 2003

Mr. Breeze, late governor of the Union House at Caersws, told me that he had heard of a person going to Aberhafesp Church porch, on All-Hallows '

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

October 31st was All-Hallows Eve, "when ghosts do walk," and here we were in a place they revelled in -- so much so that they gave their name to it, Duninius 'Dale.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Hackney Church, A.D. 1521, and Andrew Evyngar and wife, in All-Hallows

Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various

He also declined accepting the vacant living of All-Hallows, in London, and, on account of his refusal, was again summoned before the

The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

Angel of Light, revealed, to the inquisitive, coming events, provided they went to the church porch on _Nos G'lan Geua_ ', or All-Hallows' Eve, and waited there until midnight, when they would hear the Spirit announce the death roll for the coming year.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen

There was a tradition in this parish that on All-Hallows 'Eve a Spirit announced from the altar the names of those who were doomed to die in the coming year.

Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales Elias Owen