“HALLOWE’EN.”

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20866, 5 November 1929, Page 8

“HALLOWE’EN.”

i ? es^', val of Hallowe’en, as celebrated m the rural parts of Scotland in olden times, was an event eagerly looked forward to throughout the year, particularly by the younger folk, because that night they had hopes that there might be revealed to them their future partner in me. Mallows Eve was the one night in the year when warlocks, witches, elves, goblins, etc., u ere supposed to be abroad on their baneful errands, and the fairies to hold jubilee. To the older folk it represented the crowning of their’year’s labour, when the harvest had been gathered and food for man and beast was stored for the winter. Robert Burns in his poem on Hallowe'en, has preserved for us most of the rites and superstitions attached to that occasion. The Dunedin Burns Club has arranged for some of these items in the programme being presented in His Majesty’s Theatre to-mor-row evening. The vocal section will be well served with songs by Mrs D Carty Misses Mary Pratt, Mary Somerville, and Ruby Baxter, and Messrs J. Paterson, G. Wiseman, W. H. M'Kenzie, C. Hawes and J. Swan; violin solos by Mr J. Clark, and the National Reel by Miss Beulah . in -Fr S £ art -v. with humorous recitations by Mr G. Paterson (Gore).