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An' they seeked him in the rafter-room, an' cubby -hole, an' press,
An' seeked him up the chimbley-fluo, an' ever'-wheres, I guess;
But all they ever found was thist his pants an' roundabout!

An' the Gobble-uns 'll git you, ef you don't watch out!"

Riley : Little Orphant Annie.

Negroes are very superstitious, putting faith in all sorts of supernatural beings.

"Blame my trap! how de wind do blow;
And dis is das de night for de witches, sho!
Dey's trouble going to waste when de ole slut whine,

An' you hear de cat a-spittiu' when de moon don't shine."

Riley : When de Folks is Gone.

While the original customs of Hallowe'en are being forgotten more and more across the ocean, Americans have fostered them, and are making this an occasion something like what it must have been in its best days overseas. All Hallowe'en customs in the United States are borrowed directly or adapted from those