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Here's what finding each item traditionally signified:
💍The ring: upcoming marriage.
🫛The pea: No marriage within the next year.
📍The thimble: a life of spinsterhood.
🔥The matchstick: an unhappy marriage
🕸The cloth: poverty
💰The coin: wealth
Image: Straw Boys, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
💍The ring: upcoming marriage.
🫛The pea: No marriage within the next year.
📍The thimble: a life of spinsterhood.
🔥The matchstick: an unhappy marriage
🕸The cloth: poverty
💰The coin: wealth
Image: Straw Boys, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Here's what finding each item traditionally signified:
💍The ring: upcoming marriage.
🫛The pea: No marriage within the next year.
📍The thimble: a life of spinsterhood.
🔥The matchstick: an unhappy marriage
🕸The cloth: poverty
💰The coin: wealth
Image: Straw Boys, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
💍The ring: upcoming marriage.
🫛The pea: No marriage within the next year.
📍The thimble: a life of spinsterhood.
🔥The matchstick: an unhappy marriage
🕸The cloth: poverty
💰The coin: wealth
Image: Straw Boys, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Image: Howard Chandler Christy's painting "Halloween" as reproduced in Scribner's Magazine, January 1916 Public Domain Via Wikimedia Common
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Image: Howard Chandler Christy's painting "Halloween" as reproduced in Scribner's Magazine, January 1916 Public Domain Via Wikimedia Common
Images: Traditional Jack-o-Lantern from the Irish Museum of Country Life, Rannpháirtí anaithnid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkins by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkins by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
October 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Images: Traditional Jack-o-Lantern from the Irish Museum of Country Life, Rannpháirtí anaithnid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkins by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pumpkins by John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons