{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe229.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe229.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe229.htm","text":"ALLHALLOWS-EVE AT ST IVES.\nTHE ancient custom of providing children with a large apple on Allhallows-eve is still observed, to a great extent, at St Ives. \"Allan-day,\" as it is called, is the day of days to hundreds' of children, who would deem it a great misfortune were they to go to bed on \"Allan-night\" without the time-honoured Allan apple to hide beneath their pillows. A quantity of large apples are thus disposed of the sale of which is dignified by the term Allan Market.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Customs of Ancient Days: Allhallows-Eve at St Ives","type":"page"}