7. Bobbing For Apples Is Designed To Tell You If You Will Marry Next
Bobbing For Apples is probably the most common and most popular Halloween game, aside from the traditional Trick Or Treating. It's a common game to play with kids, easy to set up, easy to understand and cheap to do yourself at home to keep the sprogs entertained for five minutes. It wasn't always so pure and innocent though. Bobbing began as a way to take advantage of the spiritual powers that wandered the world on All Hallow's Eve. The concept is one that is represented in thousands of folkloric games and spells, that of finding a husband. The game would work like this; A group of young, eligible girls would gather and fill a large barrel with water. They would then take fresh apples and carve a tiny piece off and eat it. Then the apples are thrown into the water, where they float. The first girl to manage to take an apple out of the water barrel without using her hands would be the next girl to marry. The girls could also use the apples to predict who they would marry. If a girl could peel the apple in one continuous strip, and throw it over her shoulder at midnight on Halloween, then the peel would land in the shape of her intended's initial.
Bobbing For Apples is probably the most common and most popular Halloween game, aside from the traditional Trick Or Treating. It's a common game to play with kids, easy to set up, easy to understand and cheap to do yourself at home to keep the sprogs entertained for five minutes. It wasn't always so pure and innocent though. Bobbing began as a way to take advantage of the spiritual powers that wandered the world on All Hallow's Eve. The concept is one that is represented in thousands of folkloric games and spells, that of finding a husband. The game would work like this; A group of young, eligible girls would gather and fill a large barrel with water. They would then take fresh apples and carve a tiny piece off and eat it. Then the apples are thrown into the water, where they float. The first girl to manage to take an apple out of the water barrel without using her hands would be the next girl to marry. The girls could also use the apples to predict who they would marry. If a girl could peel the apple in one continuous strip, and throw it over her shoulder at midnight on Halloween, then the peel would land in the shape of her intended's initial.