_Ancient Custom in Warwickshire._--In Sir William Dugdale's _Diary_, under
the year 1658, is noted the following:
"On All Hallow Even, the master of the family antiently used to carry a
bunch of straw, fired, about his corne, saying,
'Fire and red low,
Light on my teen low.'"
Can any of your readers learned in ancient lore explain the custom and the
meaning of the couplet, well as its origin? Does it now at all prevail in
that county?