By taking an apple and going to a room alone, dividing it there into nine pieces against the name of the Father and the Son, eating eight pieces with the back to a looking glass and the face looking over the left shoulder, and then throwing the ninth piece over the same shoulder, the future husband or wife was seen in the glass coming and taking the piece of apple away. A person, going in the devil’s name to winnow in a barn alone, will see his future partner entering the door. An unmarried woman, taking a ball of thread and crossing a wall on her way, went to a kiln or other out-house. Here, holding one end of the thread, she threw the ball in the dark into the eye of the kiln (_sùil àth_), or over one of the rafters or a partition wall, in the name of a sweetheart whom she had before fixed on in her mind, and calling out “who is down there at the end of my little rope?” (_co so shìos air ceann mo ròpain?_), at the same time she gave the thread a gentle pull. In reply, some one or something pulled the thread at the other end, and a voice called out the name of her future husband. There is a story of a tailor having hid himself in anticipation of this mode of divination being resorted to, and when the ball was thrown he caught it and gave the thread a tug. In answer to the question “who is this at the end of my little rope?” he said, “I am the devil” (_Tha mise, ’n deamhan_), and the woman to whom this frightful answer was given never tried divination again. Young women sowed hemp seed (_fras lìn_) over nine ridges of plough land, saying “I sow hemp seed, and he who is to be my husband, let him come and harrow it” (_Tha mi cur fras lìn, ’s am fear bhios na fhear ’dhomh, thigeadh e ’s cliathadh e_). On looking back they saw the figure of their future husband. Hallowe’en being the night preceding the first day of a lunar month was always dark, and this ceremony was rendered more awful by a story that a woman once saw herself coming after her, and never recovered from the effects of the vision. By dipping his shirt sleeve in a well to the south (_tobar mu dheas_), and then pulling off the shirt and placing it to dry before the fire, the anxious youth, if he does not oversleep himself, will see his sweetheart entering through the night and turning the shirt. On putting an odd number of keys in a sieve, going to a barn alone, and there riddling them well “with the wrong hand turn” (_car tuaitheal_), the destined one will come and put the odd key right. By holding a mouthful of water in the mouth, and going to listen (_farcluais_) at a neighbour’s window, the first name overheard will prove to be that of one’s intended. The same knowledge was obtained by biting a piece of the last cart that sent in the corn, and with it in the mouth going, without speaking, to listen (_farcluais_) under a neighbour’s window.