"A Halloween mirror is made by the rays of the moon shining into a looking- glass. If a girl goes secretly in to a room at midnight between October and November, sits down at the mirror, and cuts an apple into nine slices , holding each on the point of a knife before she eats it, she may see in the moonlit glass the image of her lover looking over her left shoulder, and asking for the last piece of apple"
A Scottish Halloween custom, from 'The Book of Halloween', Ruth E. Kelley
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