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CUTCH-A-CUTCHOO—CUTTERS AND TRUCKLERS |
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" I step on this for the sake of food and other benefits, on this variously splendid footstool." The bride's father then presents to him a cushion made of twenty leaves of cusa grass, holding it up with both hands and exclaiming, ** The cushion! the cushion! the cushion ! " The bridegroom replies, " I accept the cushion," and taking it, places it on the ground under his feet, while he recites a prayer. It is probable that we may have in the " Cushion Dance " the last relics of a very ancient ceremony, as well as evidence of the origin of a game from custom.
Cutch-a-Cutchoo
Children clasp their hands under their knees in a sitting posture, and jump thus about the room. The one who keeps up longest wins the game.—Dublin (Mrs. Lincoln).
(b) In Notes and Queries, x. 17, "E. D." says this amusement was fashionable sixty years ago, and from the low dresses worn then by ladies he mentions its indecency. He gives extracts from a satire called Cutchacutchoo, or the Jostling of the Jnnocents, 2nd ed., Dublin, in which the game and position are
mentioned—
Now she with tone tremendous cries
Cutchacutchoo.
Let each squat down upon her ham, Jump like a goat, puck like a ram. " Uneda," at same reference (x. 17), speaks of it as a known game in Philadelphia. The analogy which this game has to some savage dances is curious; a correspondent in Notes and Queries, ix. 304, draws attention to the illustration, in Richardson's Expedition to Arctic Shores (vol. i. p. 397), of a dance by the " Kutchin-Kutcha" Indians, a parallel to the name as well as the dance which needs some research in America. See " Curcuddie," " Hop-frog."
Cutters and Trucklers
A remembrance of the old smuggling days. The boys divide into two parties; the Trucklers try to reach some given point before the Cutter catches them.—Cornwall (Folk-lore Journal, v. 60). |
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