Medieval games

Medieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top), a man guiding a blindfolded man with a club to strike a cauldron (middle), and the King of the Bean, a fake royal procession led by a zany. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

Apples Bean Blindfold Cauldron Dunk Fake Pastimes Strutt Zany

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