Although Brand's Popular Antiquities appeared in numerous editions throughout the 19th century, the 1810 edition contains some of the most quaint descriptions of Halloween rituals, including this passage about apple games:

"It is customary on this Night with young People in the North to dive for Apples, catch at them when stuck on at one End of a Kind of hanging Beam, at the other Extremity of which is fixed a lighted Candle, and that with their Mouths only, having their Hands tied behind their Backs; with many other Fooleries."