Play of the wolf

The play of the wolf is a very widespread Jeu of continuation among the children. It is according to the areas, called cat or be there to you (northern of the France) or chip (Belgium).

Rules

A player is appointed like the wolf (or the cat or the chip). He must then run after the other players until he succeeds in touching one. This last becomes the wolf then. (the drover says " then; cat! " or " be to you there! " or simply " touched! ")

To avoid the too fast changes, one can prohibit to touch his father , i.e. the new wolf cannot return the hand to that which has just touched it: one would turn then in round. The rule known as " cadenas" is also extremely widespread - in particular at the individuals most cheating & stripped of finer feelingss -: it is a question of forming a lock by uniting the inch & the index of each hand and of forming the aforementioned lock with the two hands so that the person making lock cannot become canidé the so much dreaded one. Generally, it is advisable to exclaim " cadenas" when one is touched by the wolf & that one makes lock.

Certain places of the space of play can be defined like inviolable: in the alternative of the cat perched , a player perched on an object cannot be changed into cat.

Alternatives

With the Meeting, a play of this type is associated to the legendary character of Grand-Mère Kalle. The player who incarnates it makes question by the other participants immediately that it is supposed being. He proposes the fictitious answers of his choice before suddenly exclaiming " Midnight ". The race-continuation can then start. The touched player becomes Grand-Mère Kalle and the following part begins.

Play of the wolf in the middle of the eighteenth century

“Towards the end of July, after the renewal was enough thorough to make feed the horses, the teenagers which kept them joined together in the meadow and had fun there with various plays, able to give an idea of the life of the former shepherds. (...) As for the play of the wolf, always reserved for the darkness, it was without moral goal, at least apparent. A ground stake was planted; one attached to it a long formed cord of several bandages of horse. The first wolf was chosen; usually this title was ambitionné. One attached it to the cord, one bandaged the eyes to him, then one deviated. Then one threw to him, the boys their hats or their bonnets, the girls their aprons or their rotten rolled, and to chemisottes or corsets. The wolf guessed to which belonged the hat, the apron, the rotten one, or it put it at the foot of its stake if it did not guess: one then tried to take them again. But if he had guessed a boy, this one was wolf in its turn; with the place that if it were a girl, he ate it, i.e. he fourrageait it rather freely. One was hardly caught that while wanting to take again the pledges amoncelés around the stake of the wolf. This play was extremely innocent between children such as I were, but sometimes the boys from fifteen to twenty years interfered themselves, and then it did without the not very decent things there. However lord Antoine Foudriat never wanted, neither to defend it, nor to recommend decency in this play; he said that for more than five hundred years, one had not had yes to say that he was nothing arrived essence there and that it would be enough to defend it so that it became criminal. This wise Pasteur died; its successor, lord Louis Jolivet, defended the play which became criminal: it was necessary that the civil capacity proscribed it. ”

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