_Valentine's Day_ (Vol. v., p. 55.).--Your correspondent J. S. A. will
find the following notice of a similar custom to the one he alludes to
in Mr. L. Jewitt's paper on the Customs of the County of Derby, in the
last number of the _Journal of the British Archæological Association_:
"Of the latter (divinations) there is a curious instance at
Ashborne, where a young woman who wishes to divine who her future
husband is to be, goes into the church-yard at midnight, and as
the clock strikes twelve, commences running round the church,
repeating without intermission--
'I sow hemp-seed, hemp-seed I sow,
He that loves me best
Come after me and mow.'
Having thus performed the circuit of the church twelve times
without stopping, the figure of her lover is supposed to appear
and follow her."