Halloween - Nut-crack night

[Fencesitter]

In Scotland and Northern England, Halloween has had other names, including Nut-crack night.
World Wide Words (http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm)

This is an old Scots and Northern English name for the night of 31 October, otherwise called The Oracle of the Nuts. As the chill of autumn pervaded their homes, people would sit around their fires, eating newly harvested hazelnuts or chestnuts. Several fortune-telling customs grew up that involved throwing nuts into the fire, hence these names for the night.
more here (http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-nut1.htm)

Fence

[Leesifer]

I do like this, from your link:

Two hazel-nuts I threw into the flame,
And to each nut I gave a sweetheart’s name:
This with the loudest bounce me sore amazed,
That in a flame of brightest colour blazed;
As blazed the nut, so may thy passion grow,
For ’twas thy nut that did so brightly glow!

[Legs]

Romantic nut :giggle: