91. Strutt, p. 386. "Even or Odd." A universal game.--_Ancient
Egyptian_, Wilkinson, ii. 416.--_Ancient Greek_, Aristotle,
Rhet. iii. 5. The formula is #artia ê perissa#--_Latin_,
"par impar."--_German_, "grad oder ungrad," or "effen oder
uneffen."--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 51, "Pares ó Nones" ("par
est, non est").
92. The similar _Italian_ game begins, "Galota, galota," whence,
no doubt, our "_Hulgul_," Gianandrea, No. 20.--_Ancient
Greek_, Scholiast to Aristophanes, Plut. 1057, #posa en
chersin echô#; "How many have I in my hands?" Suidas
(10th century), Lexicon, under #paidia#, writes: "There
is a game of the following character among the Athenians:
Having taken up a number of nuts and holding out his hand,
one asks, 'How many have I?' And if [the other] guesses
the number, he takes as many as he has in his hand; but
if he fails to guess, he loses as many as the asker holds
in his hand."--_Latin_, given by Helenius Acron (4th
century), "quot in sunt?" See Marin, note to preceding
game.--_German_, Meier, p. 123, "Wie viel sollen Kerner in
meiner Hand sein?" Handelmann, p. 35, etc.
93. A child rests his head in the lap of another, while a third
claps the back of the first, keeping time to the words of
the rhyme, and finally raises a certain number of fingers;
if the kneeling child can guess the number, he takes the
other's place.--_Spanish_, Marin, i. 51, No. 81. The rhyme
closely resembles the English given in the text.--_Italian_,
Imbriani, No. 30, where the question is, "How many horns
do I hold up?"--_German_, Meier, pp. 135, 136, where it is
asked, "Wie viel Hörner hat der Bock?" This allusion to the
goat (as a leaping animal) refers to the usual practice of
riding on the back of the stooping child while putting the
question.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 434.--_Dutch_, Hor. Belg.,
vi. 182. The formulas differ. Tylor, Primitive Culture, i.
67. The Latin formula of Petronius is curiously translated
by F. Nodot, A.D. 1694: "Étant à cheval sur luy, il luy
donna plusieurs coups du plat de la main sur les épaules,
disant tout haut en riant, Quatre cornes dans un sac,
combien font-ils? ce jeu fini," etc. Nodot remarks of his
free translation, that it is still a boys' game in France.
94. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 116, "Handy-Dandy."--_German_
(Austria), Vernaleken, p. 41. The formula is the
exact counterpart of the English: "Windle, wandle,
in welchen Handle, oben oder unt?" Handelmann, p. 35
(Schleswig-Holstein), "Where dwells the smith? Above or
below?"--_Spanish_, Marin, p. 50, No. 77.