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BLIND MAN'S STAN—BLIND SIM |
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and assists in the conclusion that the game has descended from a rite where animal gods were represented. Sporting with animals before sacrificing them was a general feature at these rites. It is known that the Church opposed the people imitating beasts, and in this connection it is curious to note that in South Germany the game is called blind bocky i.e., " blind goat," and in German blinde kuhe, or u blind cow." In Scotland, one of the names for the game, according to A. Scott's poems, was " Blind Buk " :
Blind buk! but at the bound thou schutes, And them forbeirs that the rebutes. It may therefore be conjectured that the person who was hoodwinked assumed the appearance of a goat, stag, or cow by putting on the skin of one of those animals.
He who is twice crowned or touched on the head by the taker or him who is hoodwinked, instead of once only, according to the law of the game, is said to be brunt (burned), and regains his liberty.—Jamieson.
Blind Man's Stan
A boys' game, played with the eggs of small birds. The eggs are placed on the ground, and the player who is blindfolded takes a certain number of steps in the direction of the eggs; he then slaps the ground with a stick thrice in the hope of breaking the eggs; then the next player, and so on.—Patterson's A ntrim and Down Glossary.
Blind Nerry-Mopsey
The Whitby name for " Blind Man's Buff. —Robinson's Glossary.
Blind Palmie or Pawmie ']
One of the names given to the game of "Blindman's Buff." —Jamieson.
Blind Sim
Suffolk name for "Blind Man's Buff."—Forby's Vocabulary ofEast Anglia. |
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