Cat's Cradle Game History

And it may be known in Java Celebes and Australia.

Cat's cradle game history. Cup and Saucer The Witchs Broom Cats Cradle and Jacobs Ladder as well as a brief history of string games. Is a chamber orchestra that takes its name from one of the oldest games in recorded human history - the cats cradle. Our Cats Cradle and Other String Games uses the Haddon and Rivers terminology for defining the strings on the fingers and features jumbo yarn.

The cats cradle is a game played with string one of the oldest games in human history. Included are directions for four classic string games. In the mid-80s David and the Penleys passed the torch to Frank HeathAs we all realized during two weekends of anniversary shows in December and January the rest is history.

It is a type of string figure. Variations of the game have been found in cultures across the world including Eastern Asia Africa the Americas and even the Arctic giving the game a significant amount of interest among anthropologists and ethnologists. Haddon has pointed out the familiar game of cats-cradle probably had its origin in Asia whence it was introduced into Europe.

Sometimes a whole drama was played by means of the changing shapes. Rather it was developed independently by many cultures around the same time. It has also spread to some extent among the Asiatic islands.

That certainly sounds far-fetched today but it was a commonly held superstition back in the 1600s and 1700s. The question of who first played cats cradle the childrens game in which two players alternately take from each others fingers an intertwined cord so as always to produce a symmetrical figure is almost as contentious as the origin of its name. CATS CRADLE is one of the worlds simplest string games.

According to Edward Tregear in The Maori race 1904 the Cats Cradle whai huhi or maui was known to the Maoris as to almost all the inhabitants of the Malay Archipelago and South SeasIt was played with the two hands and a piece of string assuming very complicated forms. The art of making pictures or telling stories with string and your hands or sometimes feet. The use of cats in the cradle to describe something dangerous appears to come from an old wives tale that if allowed into its crib a cat would kill an infant by sucking out its breath.