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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Darkwing Manor, post: 2922658, member: 738&quot;]... </p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;And then there was the rather perilous “Apple and Candle” game. The game involved hanging up a stick horizontally by a string and attaching a lit candle to one end and an apple to the other.&nbsp; <i>The Book of Days</i> explains:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>“The stick being made to twirl rapidly, the merry-makers in succession leap up and snatch at the apple with their teeth (no use of the hands being allowed), but it very frequently happens that the candle comes round before they are aware, and scorches them in the face, or anoints them with grease.”</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Even so, that still sound better than &quot;The Three Luggies&quot;, or &quot;The Nut Roast&quot;....</p><p>(from <a href="https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/10/18/a-victorian-halloween-party/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/10/18/a-victorian-halloween-party/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mimimatthews.com/2015/10/18/a-victorian-halloween-party/</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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