Halloween

Scope and Contents Customs relating to La-Samhna [Halloween] including that a girl would put an object [not defined here] under her pillow and if she saw her lover coming to take it from her then she would be married that year; that three plates one each of butter, salt and water were placed on the floor and then a blind-folded person was to put their hand in a plate and whichever one he chose would be of significance for example if he chose salt then that would mean death; girls would throw their 'criosan'...

Scope and Contents Note to ask Baron Livingston about the holding of Samhnag [Halloween bonfire] at Kingussie [Ceann a' Ghiuthsaich, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire].

Scope and Contents Superstition about women combing their hair that they should not do so after dark on a Sunday night and a saying that a young woman with friends at sea should not comb her hair at night on 'Luan-Dhomnuich', which Carmichael queries as being the Sunday for giving alms to the poor. He also notes that 'La[tha] nam Marbh' is the day preceding 'La[tha] Samhna' when 'the dead stretch out their hand for relief on that day'.

Scope and Contents Verse entitled 'Oi[dh]che Shamhna' [Halloween] beginning 'Tha mise ga do dheas, A ruaidh roid'. The accompanying note reads 'They had to see their love' and vocabulary added reads 'Gille-toire = Henchman = spy'.

Scope and Contents Vocabulary note which reads 'Crannachan = Bainne buailte = Ce cìa whisked' and accompanying fragment of a custom which reads 'Tha gaoisid [-] fheaman a bho - not of horse, best in slight frost - Halloween often.'