Superstitions
1)A gambler who hides under the tendrils of the blackberry bush and invokes
the aid of the ancients will always have good luck with cards (Ireland).
2)On Halloween Eve, do not look at your shadow in the moonlight, or you
shall be next to haunt a graveyard (England).
3)Do not go hunting on Halloween Eve as you may wound a wandering spirit (England).
4)Children born on Halloween will enjoy lifelong protection against evil spirits
and will be endowed with the gift of second sight ( Rural America).
5)On Halloween, force all the sheep and lambs to pass through a hoop
of rowen wood to ward off witches and Faeries (England).
6)To ensure fertility of crops during the coming year, make a circuit of the
fields with a lighted torch on Halloween (England).
7)All souls in Purgatory are released for fourty-eight hours from All Hallows Eve.
On these nights they are free (Gaelic).
8)On Halloween, the wind blowing over the feet of deceased bears sighs to
the houses of those about to die within the year (Wales).
9)If you hear footsteps following you on Halloween, you should not look around
for it is the dead who are following, and if you meet their gaze, you will die (Ireland).
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