Hallows, Samhain - October 31st

Artist unknown

Although many people today would call it Halloween (a contraction of Hallowed Eve), the Victorians may have called this holiday Snap Apple Night or Nut Crack Night because of the traditional divination games played with nuts or apple peelings to determine the initials of future bridegrooms..................For the user of magic, Samhain or Halloween is the in-between time, the time of the dead.  The new year and the old swing on the same hinge, and the veil between worlds grows thin..............at this time our spiritual energy should be refilled to ensure sustenance for the winter. 

Excerpts from "A Victorian Grimoire"