Victorian Halloween Games
Face in the Mirror
For the Victorians, the most popular Halloween games involved predicting one's romantic future.
If you were a young lady and wanted to see your future husband, you would have stood in a darkened room with a candle and a mirror and by the 12:00 midnight, you would hope your future husband's face would appear in the mirror.
Nuts and Beans
This is another romantic game during Victorian Halloween time.
Because Samhain is a harvest festival, the fruits of the harvest also played a large role in celebrations which are nuts, beans and apples and have been used to forecast the future.
Potential couples tossed nuts into the fire to see if they cracked and exploded for a tempestuous relationship, or if they burned together slowly for long-lasting companionship.
Couples also tossed a pair of hot beans into a pot of water--if they both sank the couple could hope for a happy future, if they both floated the couple could expect troubled waters, and if one sank and one didn't, they could expect not to marry at all.
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