101. Halliwell, Nurs. Rh., Nos. 328, 357; Pop. Rh.,
p. 118; Chambers, p. 123, "The King and Queen of
Cantelon."--_German_, Rochholz, p. 414, No. 32.
102. Halliwell, Pop. Rh., p. 132, "The Old Dame," like our B.
The Scotch of Chambers, p. 130, "Gled Wylie" (wily hawk)
corresponds to our first version.--_German_, Mullenhoff, p.
488; Handelmann, p. 76, etc.--_Swedish_, Arwiddson, iii.
164.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 34, No. 40, here a game of a
witch like our second version.--_Finnish_, Neus, p. 418,
begins like the Scotch.--_Russian_, Bezsonoff, p. 195,
probably borrowed from the German.
103. The name, "Tag," in Gent.'s Mag., Feb. 1738.--_German_,
Handelmann, p. 66, "Eisen anfassen;" "Eisenzech" in Berlin;
"Eisenziggi" in Switzerland.--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 62,
"Toca fero."--"Squat-tag" is also _Spanish_, Maspons y
Labrós, p. 81.
105. _Ancient Greek_, Pollux, ix. 117, #Apodidraskinda#,
"Game of Running Away."--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 89,
"Verstecherlspiel," "Einschauen."--_Italian_, Bernoni,
p. 61, "Chi se vede, eh!"--_French_, Celnart, p. 55,
"Cligne-musette" or "Cache-cache."
106. _French_, Chabreul, p. 1, "La Queue Leuleu," mentioned by
Froissart.--_German_, Rochholz, p. 408, etc.; Schuster, p.
392, a game of wolf and geese; so _Russian_, Bezsonoff, p.
205.
107. _Spanish_, Marin, i. 169. The seeker must wait until the
hiders, who go off one by one as they are counted out, cry
"Jilo bianco, jilo negro," etc. Hence, probably, the cry
"Blancalilo," etc., of the English game. The rest proceeds
like No. 105. In the Spanish sport, a player reaching goal
must spit three times; this seems to have been originally
a conjuration against the Evil Spirit, whom the seeker
represented.
108. _Ancient Greek_, Pollux, ix. 113, 123. The game is
universal. See Handelmann, p. 71. Child, Eng. and Scot. Pop.
Bal., 1882, i. 67.
109. _German_, Handelmann, p. 65, "Die Hexe." The games are
identical; yet the children, from whom the version in the
text was learned, imagined that they had "made it up!"
110. Strutt, p. 61.--_German_, Vernaleken, p. 63,
"Das Barlaufen."--_French_, Celnart, p. 58, "Les
Barres."--_Italian_, Bernoni, p. 87. The French word
_barres_ is probably only a false interpretation of an older
word _bar_, a form of our base, meaning goal; so Swiss
"Bahre," Basle. Kindr., p. 30.--_Flemish_, in Hor. Belg.,
vi. 181.
111. N. and Q., 2d ser. VIII. pp. 70, 132. Brand, ii.
316.--_German_, Handelmann, p. 81, "Die Katzen von dem
Berge." The phrase is "Cat, cat, off my hill!"--_French_,
Belèze, p. 42, "Le Roi Détroné."
113. Chambers, p. 122, "Hickety Bickety."--_German_, Aus dem
Kinderleben, p. 24. Rochholz, p. 442.