The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) / With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc.

by Alice Bertha Gomme

Hoodman Blind

Name for “[Blind Man’s Buff].” Mentioned in Hamlet, iii. 4; Merry Devil of Edmonton; and Wise Women of Hogsden.

Hooper’s Hide

Name for “[Blind Man’s Buff].”—Nares’ Glossary.

Hop-crease

The game of “[Hop-scotch].”—Halliwell’s Dictionary.

Hop-frog

The players bend as though about to sit on a very low stool, then spring about with their hands resting on their knees.—Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vii. 234).

Miss Peacock says that a game called “Hop-frog over the Dog” is played at Stixwould, Lincolnshire, in the same way as “[Leap-frog].”

See “[Curcuddie],” “[Cutch-a-cutchoo],” “[Harie Hutcheon],” “[Hirtschin Hairy].”