This is South Carolina Rave Culture: Halloween

Photos by Sean Rayford

A New Halloween Game (New York Tribune, October 26, 1919)

"The Shivers" By KATE HUDSON

HALLOWEEN and shudders seem to go together, then how about this game for goose-prickles? It is one Mr. Mystery Man used to play while still seated around the Halloween supper table in the proper dim, shadowy light and with all hands well underneath the overhanging witch and black cat decorated tablecloth. We christened it “The Shivers."

We played it by passing carefully "prepared-to-make-one-shiver" articles from hand to hand, without seeing what they were. It is surprising how "creepy" things entirely innocent to the sight can be to the touch. Whoever squeals or drops what he gets hold of pays a fine.

The things to pass are brought on a covered tray to Mr. or Mrs. Mystery Man at the head of the table and handed from her right hand to her neighbor's left and then right and so on around the table.

As it returns to the left hand of the one at the head of the table she drops it and takes up the next article.

Anything woolly, fluffy, slippery, cold or wabbly will feel “spooky" unseeing recover. A limp bean bag, a fluff of cotton-wool, the feathery end of a bric-a-brac duster, a lucky rabbit's foot, a bit of fur, a string of cold glans beads, an Angora mitten loosely stuffed and, above all, a kid glove firmly stuffed with wet sea sand and kept on ice till needed are some things with which successfully to play “The Shivers."

The Let the Mystery Man or Woman at the head of the table wear a long cloak and mask and let every one guess for a prize the names of the objects passed, each one making a written list when the last "shiver" has gone around the table.