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#Halloween Countdown, Day 24
Today's text is Helps and Hints for Hallowe’en (1920) by Laura Rountree Smith.
Quote: Hist! be still! ’tis Hallowe’en,
When fairies troop across the green!
On Hallowe’en when elves and witches are abroad, we find it the custom over all the world to build bonfires, to keep off evil spirits.... On this night fortunes are told, games are played, and if it so happens that your birthday falls on this night, you may even be able to hold converse with fairies—so goes the ancient superstition!
