[603] R. Burns, l.c.; Rev. W. Gregor, l.c.; Miss E.J.  Guthrie, op. cit. p. 72; Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 286; A. Goodrich-Freer, “More Folklore from the Hebrides,” Folklore, xiii. (1902) p. 54.

[604] Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 283.

[605] Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. pp. 283 sq.; A. Goodrich-Freer, l.c.

[606] Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 284.

[607] R. Burns, l.c.; Rev. W. Gregor, op. cit. p. 85; Miss E.J.  Guthrie, op. cit. p. 70; Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 284.  Where nuts were not to be had, peas were substituted.

[608] Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 284.

[609] Rev. J.G.  Campbell, l.c. According to my recollection of Hallowe’en customs observed in my boyhood at Helensburgh, in Dumbartonshire, another way was to stir the floating apples and then drop a fork on them as they bobbed about in the water.  Success consisted in pinning one of the apples with the fork.

[610] R. Burns, l.c.; Rev. W. Gregor, op. cit. pp. 85 sq.; Miss E.J.  Guthrie, op. cit. pp. 72 sq.; Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 287.

[611] R. Burns, l.c.; Rev. W. Gregor, op. cit. p. 85; Miss E.J.  Guthrie, op. cit. pp. 69 sq.; Rev. J.G.  Campbell, op. cit. p. 285.  It is the last of these writers who gives what may be called the Trinitarian form of the divination.

[612] Miss E.J.  Guthrie, Old Scottish Customs (London and Glasgow, 1885), pp. 74 sq.

[613] A. Goodrich-Freer, “More Folklore from the Hebrides,” Folk-lore, xiii. (1902) p. 55.

[614] Pennant’s manuscript, quoted by J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 389 sq.

[615] Sir Richard Colt Hoare, The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales A.D.  MCLXXXVIII. by Giraldus de Barri (London, 1806), ii. 315; J. Brand, Popular Antiquities, i. 390.  The passage quoted in the text occurs in one of Hoare’s notes on the Itinerary.  The dipping for apples, burning of nuts, and so forth, are mentioned also by Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), pp. 253, 255.

[616] (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Heathendom (London and Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 515 sq. As to the Hallowe’en bonfires in Wales compare J.C.  Davies, Folk-lore of West and Mid-Wales (Aberystwyth, 1911), p. 77.

[617] See above, p. 183.

[618] See above, p. 231.

[619] Marie Trevelyan, Folk-lore and Folk-stories of Wales (London, 1909), pp. 254 sq.

[620] (General) Charles Vallancey, Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, iii. (Dublin, 1786), pp. 459-461.

[621] Miss A. Watson, quoted by A.C.  Haddon, “A Batch of Irish Folk-lore,” Folk-lore, iv. (1893) pp. 361 sq.