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Rh 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:

8. AROUND THE WALNUT TREE. Of all Hallowe'en spells and charms associated with nuts, the following is one of the oldest: If a young man or woman goes at midnight on Hallowe'en to a walnut tree and walks around three times, crying out each time, "Let him (her) that is to be my true love bring me some walnuts," future wife or husband will be seen in tree gathering fruit.

9. WHERE DWELLS MY LOVER? Steal out unobserved at midnight; plucking a small lock of hair from your head, cast it to breeze. Whatever