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Day 9! This one goes along with the festival of Pomona.

From here, but I read this almost word for word in a book called Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History by Lesley Bannatyne:
"Hallowe'en was also sometimes called Snap Apple Night, in England. A game called snap apple was played where apples were suspended on a long piece of string. Contestants had to try an bite the apple without using their hands. A variation of the game was to fix an apple and a lighted candle at opposite ends of a stick suspended horizontally and to swing the stick round. The object was to catch the apple between the teeth whilst avoiding the candle."

WHEE!

Date: 2007-10-11 12:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com
The object was to catch the apple between the teeth whilst avoiding the candle.

Yikes! I think I would've insisted on being a spectator only at that game.

Date: 2007-10-11 01:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mamomo.livejournal.com
Snap Apple sounds like it'd be a great game to resurrect. It doesn't have the messy, sorta grossness that bobbing for apples has.

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