Share page | Visit Us On FB |
I
6 2 CAT'S CRADLE
The different orders or arrangements must be taken from the hands of one player by another without disturbing the arrangement.—A. B. Gomme.
(b) Nares suggests that the proper name is "Cratch Cradle," and is derived from the archaic word cratch, meaning a manger. He gives several authorities for its use. The first-made form is not unlike a manger. Moor (Suffolk Words) gives the names as cat's cradle, barn-doors, bowling-green, hour-glass, pound, |
||
|
||
Cat's Cradle Soldier's Bed |
||
|
||
Taking off" Candles "Taking off" |
||
|
||
net, diamonds, fish-pond, fiddle. A supposed resemblance originated them. Britton (Beauties of Wiltshire, Glossary) says the game in London schools is called " Scratch-scratch " or " Scratch-cradle."
The game is known to savage peoples. Professor Haddon noted it among the Torres Straits people, who start the game in the same manner as we do, but continue it differently (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., p. 361); and Dr. Tylor has pointed out |
||