How did some children's games come about? Detailed answer

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How did some children's games come about?

Nowadays, hide-and-seek is played for fun. But hide and seek appeared a long time ago, when this game had a completely different meaning for the people who played it. Adults usually played hide-and-seek. In some places in England there was a custom according to which, when spring came, people went out into the woods and fields to find there flowers and birds that appeared with the onset of this season. Then what was found was brought to the village so that everyone could see that spring had really come.

The search for these signs of spring, which were hiding in the forests, was the beginning of the game of hide and seek. And despite the fact that a lot of time has passed since the appearance of the game, in some countries, even in our time, the one who hides sometimes imitates the cry of a bird. It is interesting that almost all children's games did not begin as games, but from some historical event or from a legend that people believed in.

Sometimes some joyful events served as the beginning for them, sometimes sad ones. "London Bridge is falling" is a game that came into being under very serious circumstances. It doesn't even have anything to do with London! It refers to those times when people believed that after death people had to cross some kind of bridge. Some got on the golden bridge to heaven, while others had to go on the old, rickety bridge to meet the devil. This game is played all over the world, each country has its own name!

Author: Likum A.

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