The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 255
thatthis game as played in Sheffield is quite different from that de-scribed under the same title in Halliwells Dictionary. Aubrey(p. 30) speaks of Hot Cockles as a game played at funeralsin Yorkshire, and the lines here given show that this was thegame. The lines— Where is this poor man to go… … iilisme, p. 31). Grimm mentions the cuckoo hill (Gauchsberg).He says, Originally in Gauchsberg the bird himself may verywell have been meant in a mystic sense which has fallen darkto us now {Teut. Myth., ii. 681). We know, too, the oldbelief that the cuckoo tells children how many years they haveto…
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