Game of Hot-cockles!
A popular family game at Christmas, person blindfolded, knelt down with their head in someone's lap, while guessing who was hitting them from behind! This was an early form of Blind Man's Buff
Picture No
10052986
Media ID
47251589
Size
5549px x 3383px
(1.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Engraving after a manuscript of the romance of Meliadus reproduced in T Wright Homes of Other Days' page 244
Date
circa 17th century
Pick your License
Anymore Blindfolded Cockles Guess Hitting Olden Oldest Placing
Features In These Collections
> Contributors > MEP
