A broadside satirising the witchcraft customs and rituals on Halloween night;
1830 (circa)
The first explanatory note in Burns’s poem “Halloween” (1785) is used here as a sub-title, and reads ” [Halloween] thought to be a night when witches, devils, and other mischief-making beings, are all abroad on their baneful midnight errands; particularly those aerial people, the Faires [sic], are said on that night, to hold a grand anniversary.”
The British Museum
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