Hoodman blind, or blind man's buff, 14th century

Hoodman blind, or blind man's buff, 14th century. Men taking turns to be the blind man by reversing the hood, or hitting the blind man with their knotted hoods, and women playing the game (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

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