Old St Thomas's Eve (St Thomas's feast day is now July 3 (qv), formerly December 21.)
St Thomas's Eve is a special night for love prognostications. For a prophetic dream that will reveal your future true love, stick a pin precisely in the centre of an onion and then stick eight more pins around the first in a circle while saying:
Good St Thomas, do me right
And let my true love come to-night
That I may see him in the face
And in my arms may him embrace.
All you must do then is sleep with the onion under your pillow ...