Alabama.
304. On Halloween hang an apple by the door just the height of the chin. Rub the chin with saliva, stand about six inches from the apple, and hit the chin against the apple. If it sticks to the chin, you will be married, and your true love will stick to you.
St. John, N. B.
305. A girl goes to a field on Halloween at midnight to steal cabbages. The first one whom she meets on her return will be her husband.
Boston, Mass.
306. On Halloween at midnight a young lady in her night-dress walks backward into the garden and pulls up a cabbage. She will see her future husband over her shoulder.
Eastern Massachusetts.
307. I wind, I wind, my true love to find,
The color of his hair, the clothes he’ll wear,
The day he is married to me.
Throw a ball of yarn into a barn, old house, or cellar, and wind, repeating the above lines, and the true love will appear and wind with you. To be tried at twelve o’clock at night, on Halloween.