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 64
e, the dialogue follows, and the blind man is turned round three times. The game is for him to catch one of the players, who is blindfolded in turn if the blind man succeeds in guessing who he is. Players are allowed to pull, pinch, and buffet the blind man. (c) This sport is found among the… … indicate the complete covering of the head, and also the fact that the game was played by adults. Gay says concerning it— As once I play'd at blindmaii's-biiff, it hap't, A bout my eyes the towel thick was wrapt. I miss'd the swains, and seiz'd on Blouzelind. And another reference is quoted by…
Games -- Great Britain
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