Editing Apple bobbing (section)

==Apple on a String==
[[File:Christy's Halloween.jpg|thumb|''Halloween'', 1915, [[Howard Chandler Christy]]]]
[[File:North Texas Agricultural College party with students bobbing for apples (10008564).jpg|thumb|[[North Texas Agricultural College]] students bobbing for apples, circa 1930s]]

A common variant of bobbing of apples is the game '''snap apple''' or '''apple on a string,''' in which apples are hung from the ceiling and contestants jump to take bites - the winner is the contestant that manages to eat their entire apple first. To increase the difficulty, it is common to spin the apples beforehand or shake the cords, often catching contestants who are unaware or too slow in the face.<ref name="auto1"/>

In Scotland, alongside dooking for apples, treacle [[scones]], smeared in additional [[treacle]], are strung from the ceiling at Halloween.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/traicle_n1|title=Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND :: traicle n1|access-date=2023-08-02|archive-date=2023-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802191959/https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/traicle_n1|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/6-scottish-halloween-traditions#:~:text=3.,covered%20scones%20dangling%20from%20string. | title=6 Scottish Halloween traditions | access-date=2023-08-02 | archive-date=2023-08-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802191959/https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/6-scottish-halloween-traditions#:~:text=3.,covered%20scones%20dangling%20from%20string. | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18831522.recipe-halloween-treacle-scones/|title=Recipe: Halloween treacle scones|date=November 4, 2020|website=HeraldScotland|access-date=August 2, 2023|archive-date=August 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802191958/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18831522.recipe-halloween-treacle-scones/|url-status=live}}</ref>