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“Just before midnight was the time to go out “alone and unperceived” to a south-running brook, dip a shirt-sleeve in it, bring it home and hang it by the fire to dry. One must go to bed, but watch till midnight for a sight of the destined mate who would come to turn the shirt to dry the other side.”

- An Irish Hallowe’en tradition, described in The Book of Hallowe’en, by Ruth Edna Kelley. Art: Study For The Bachelor, by Andrew Wyeth.