ELEPHANTS ON WHITBY BEACH

ELEPHANTS ON WHITBY BEACH

Monday 25 October 2010

NUTCRACK NIGHT


OUT ON YE! HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
















In Whitby, upon the Eve of All Saints, it was customary for young suitors to practice strange divinations. The medium for one peculiar process of love prognostication was the nut. Couples would throw two hazelnuts into the fire. If they burned quietly together, then a harmonious marriage lay ahead. Exploding, popping nuts that ricochet around the room upon all hallows eve were considered an inauspicious omen.

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