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Halloween
All Hallows E'en, the last day of October, and a night when witches and warlocks were supposed to reign in Scotland. It is the title of one of the poems in the Kilmarnock Edition couched in the old Scots stanza form used in 'The Holy Fair'. Daiches, very properly, says that it is: 'of more interest to the expert in folklore than to the general reader; its accumulation of descriptions of Halloween folk customs, couched in a language containing a higher percentage of rustic Scots words than is found in any other of Burns's poems, becomes tedious in spite of the lively movement and the skilfully manipulated verse.'
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