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The history of the game of hide and seek. The mystical game of hide and seek, which began many years ago, still terrifies Russians. See what "Hide and Seek" is in other dictionaries

The history of the game of hide and seek.

S. Gribkov. Hide and seek. 1893

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. Usually adults played hide and seek. In some places in England, there was a custom according to which, with the onset of spring, people went out into the forests and fields to find there flowers and birds that appeared with the onset of that time of the year. 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 woods, was the beginning of the game of hide and seek. And despite the fact that a very long 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. The history of hide and seek and the legends associated with it would take many pages. In Asia, hide and seek is played in the same way as in Australia, as in South America and Alaska. In France, the game is called "Kache-Kache". In the Balkans and Turkey "Do you love your neighbor?" In the USA and in the countries of English language the game is called Hide and Seek. In Holland, they believe that this game comes from ancient folk customs, when boys and girls in the first days of spring went to the forest, to look for birds, beetles in the field, to pick flowers to make sure that the night of rebirth has come. Therefore, in Holland, players imitate birds, flee from the hunter, flapping their wings. And if the driver does not find the players for a long time, they whistle, imitating the bird's voices, to let them know where they are. Hide-and-seek has spread in many forms and has become an integral part of many other games, but they come from ancient folk customs, from the cult rituals of earlier times.

Description of the game

At the beginning of the game, everyone gets together, then the driver, facing the wall, counts loudly to 100 (or another number). Sometimes tens of up to 100 or 200. Others hide at this time. Having counted to the required number, the driver goes to look for those who have hidden. Sometimes before that it is supposed to say “one-two-three-four-five, I'm going [all of you] to look for”, “it's time, it's not time, I'm going out of the yard” or “who didn't hide, I'm not to blame”. Seeing the hiding one, he must be the first to run to the place from which he began to search, and touch the wall with his hand, pronouncing the agreed words that differ in different regions ("check", "magic wand", "pali-vyry", "tra-ta ta "," kuli-kuly "," tuki-ruki "," tuki-tuki for yourself "," ban-drum for yourself "," knock-knock for yourself "," knock-ta "," fired-knocked " , "I knocked and fell," "tuki-baki", "tulle-ya", "knock of a stick I"). Everyone who hides tries to be the first to do the same. The next driver is the one who hid who was salted (“checked”) first, and if no one was salted - the same as last time. You cannot hide behind the back or next to the driver. Sometimes, as an option, the last player can help out all "caught" and the driver drives again. To give dynamism to the game according to the conditions, the last "caught" becomes the driver.

Free players can help those not yet found by shouting hints like:

"Ax-ax, sit like a thief and do not look out into the yard" - means that the moment for the appearance is very unfavorable;
"Saw-saw, fly like an arrow" - the opposite meaning: there is an opportunity to overtake the driver, which means it's time to jump out of cover.

In the west, a variant of the game called "sardines" is also widespread. In this version, one is hiding, and all the others are looking for him. Whoever finds him first hides with him. Then the next one who finds them joins them, then all the others take turns. The game ends when the last player joins the rest. He is declared the loser and usually hides next. Sardines are often played in the dark.

Also in the west, there is a version of the game of hide and seek using the name and surname of a famous Venetian traveler. In this game, the hunter commits to answer "Polo" when the seeker says "Marco". Often used in TV shows.

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Hide and seek

The history of the game of hide and seek is ancient. There are various assumptions about where it could come from, how it could arise. Someone suggests that hunting traditions are at the origins of it. Personally, it seems to me and many other researchers of the issue that magic rituals are at the heart of this game. However, no matter where the game comes from, the kids play it without hesitation.

Hide and seek and disguise are branches of the same tree. Their essence is the same. After all, what is the most common way to change yourself and your life, when you are not comfortable in your soul, it’s hard, everything is enough? Women most often go to a beauty salon and try to change, dye their hair, get a new haircut, and change their image. Men ... Well, more often than not they go not to the salon, but to the gym, fortunately. But still, the essence is the same. They go in order to qualitatively change.

Already one change of image - appearance, image, there is a disguise. And when does a person resort to disguise? When hiding, hiding. When you need to transform not only the surrounding reality - the situation, but also yourself. Enemies are not asleep, which means that disguise will help to hide from them.

Moving, both from one area of the city to another, and from the country in the north, somewhere to the south, one field of berries. An escape of this kind, if you add the first method (external disguise) to it, will help in almost any situation when you need to change something qualitatively in your life. But here there is one important nuance: When resorting to this method of influencing events for changes in life, one should not forget that hide and seek, or disguise, is still more about external changes.

“You can't run away from yourself,” says popular wisdom. And rightly so, because it is almost never possible to run away from oneself. Memory anyway, sticky tape will hold tightly by the throat, reminding of the little things that add up the puzzle of every human destiny. Consequently, changes "from external to internal" state will not always serve as a panacea for current problems. But if you approach this issue thoroughly, and try to change, in external, again, conditions to the maximum, then the results will be much higher.

So, for example, a person who finds himself in a difficult life situation, often intuitively (but more often on the advice of a witch), uses the so-called "layer encryption method." The layers of their energy fields, covering them from any external influence. This work begins, which is most logical to assume, from the beginning with a change in appearance.

The external appearance (and the image, in the context of the image) of a person is his photo on a business card. This is the face that he reveals to the people who immerse him (among whom there may be those from whom one should hide). It is not difficult to change your appearance, and you can do it both to a minimum (hairstyle and hair color) and to a maximum (plastic surgery).

This first stage also includes changing your body (lose weight - get better - work out in the gym).

Then comes the second, qualitatively higher stage. This is a name change. Oh, changing your name is a favorite method used by people for centuries, in a variety of situations. From the choice of a name, not only the character of a person will depend, but also the external conditions in which he will find himself after. However, one should not forget that a new name that a person consciously chooses will be prompted to him by his own "old" subconscious. Or it will carry the burden of associations; or it will be temporary, influenced by circumstances, impressions, and other conditions. This is not scary, but it is better if we are talking about disguise in order to hide from oneself, and the previous life, nevertheless, choose the name correctly.

How to choose a name in such a situation, each magician-advisor will say his own. My opinion is that, first of all, you always need to focus on a specific person who wants to change his name. If, for example, we are talking about a young man, then changing the name from Fedor to Theodor is a bad option. In the mind of a young man, it is easy to keep within this change of consonants and vowels, and he himself will not give qualitative changes. But if Fedor (subject to other conditions), suddenly becomes August, having prepared in advance the appropriate "legend" (as a background to such a change), then the purely external result will be more noticeable both in terms of timing and quality.

A middle-aged woman, for example, could change her simple name to a complex one, for example, from Yana to Marianne, or from Irina to Iraida. In order to cut off ties to past problems, so that they do not follow a "renewed" personality in a train, it is good to create names - charades. The name and surname can form a new, independent name, and give the bearer an opportunity, at the same time to remain in the image familiar to him (her) over the years of wearing, creating an independent associative array.

So, for example, the letters in the combination of the first and last name change: Yana Ogurtsova becomes Anya Gorutsova. Or Julia Belova - Alya Lobovoy. Funny, of course, but it works!

Next, the most interesting element of the game of hide and seek, or escape. In modern reality, it is quite feasible, and does not even require special material investments. Does a person who needs protection here and now have relatives (ancestors) from a distant village in the south of the country? So maybe it's worth looking for shelter in the land of the ancestors?

Or remember the great-grandmother who fled to Paris in the first wave of emigrants? By the way, such returns of the past on a new level (the inverted Empress rules :)) always work. It turns out that without knowing it, at times, great-granddaughters and great-grandchildren will repeat the fortunate destinies of their relatives. And in connection with the changed external conditions, and knowledge of family history, they will successfully avoid the "shoals" made by previous generations.

But this is already free fantasies, and if we return to the topic, then hide and seek with Fate is a mutually favorite game of both people and Fates. Take all life, for example. No one, it would seem, is running anywhere, deliberately not hiding. But life itself provides conditions that cannot be circumvented. Life changes every year, every decade. And what has developed successfully for the generation of great-grandfathers, for great-grandchildren can turn out no less successful, but taking into account the mistakes passed.

Just as shamans paint their faces, dress in special shamanic vestments, and in this form knock on the Spirits, people behave at all levels of their being. As soon as a person thinks about how he can change his life for the better, he realizes that all the so-called “given” - living conditions, rules of behavior, all “I want”, and all “I can” live in the minds of people! And, having gathered his strength, any person can become, even for a moment, the creator of his own destiny, at least throwing off his hateful office jacket and, putting on the cheerful mask of the “Joker”, become not “hey, Vasya”, but some kind of Knut Red. What will happen next with this "Knut"? How will he earn his livelihood tomorrow? Does not matter! Because if the one who left the office "hey, Vasya" decided to change, took the first step, the road of his life will certainly lead him to a new path. And he will turn onto this new path. And life will never be the same again.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and all civil servants wear a mandatory suit; All employees of firms, corporate enterprises, and other crap have a mandatory dress code. Creative people, the so-called "bohemia" is also recognizable from a mile away by its appearance. Someone looks in all this masquerade organically, and on someone that they don’t wear, everything sits like a saddle on a cow, but, nevertheless, as a disguise of his personality, his true image, his face before Infinity - it works !

If everything goes awry, everything has been broken for a long time, or you see the usual bursting at the seams - finish it off! Do not hold on to the slivers of a sinking boat. Jump off. In the end, not a single captain of a hopelessly sinking ship, a ship going to the bottom, rescued by his stubbornness alone.

Change! Changing your life - change yourself. And, conversely, change yourself by changing your life. This is not the same rule of the whole game of hide and seek. In the first case, sometimes uncontrolled by you, a factor - changes in living conditions, can lead to changes in yourself. In the second case, just the changes you created in your character, behavior, appearance, create changes in the space around you.

And who knows what horizons will open, as soon as you hide like thisway :)

CLEANING

Now guys, let's play hide and seek.
A long time ago, this game was also called "funerals", "hide-boxes" or "funerals". And in my time, girls often called her in the old way and affectionately - "hide-and-seek".
The game is simple and familiar to many. But when I asked the guys how they play hide and seek at the present time, it turned out that they play in different ways. Sometimes they even mix the rules of this game with a magic wand and get neither one nor the other. Therefore, I want to tell you about the hide and seek that we played, so that you can check if you yourself play. And, of course, I am writing for those who, perhaps, have not yet had to play this game.
Usually hide and seek is played in the yard. And to make the game interesting, try to keep you no more than ten people, otherwise it is difficult and long to search for everyone. But even less than four, you should not play either.
To begin with, we all need to agree together on what places you can’t hide. For example, do not run behind a neighboring house or into the street, do not climb into the basement, and so on. Decide for yourself, taking into account the specifics of the place where you will play.
Then everyone counts to see who drives first. You will have to count only at the beginning of the game, and then everything will go by itself.
The driver stands facing the wall or in some corner (this place is called "house") and covers his face with his hands. And sometimes we even covered his head with a jacket or something else, so that there was no temptation to peep. Then the rest quietly scatter into different sides and hide.
After a minute or two, the driver asks loudly: "Is it time?"
All those who managed to hide are silent, and those who have not yet answered: "It's not time."
So the driver asks until the answer is complete silence. Then he says: "It's time, it's not time, I'm going out of the yard!" And he goes to look.
He loudly calls all those found by name, they leave their shelters, go to the "house" and wait until the last one is found.
Sometimes it happens that he has found everyone, but one cannot be found in any way. You will inspect all the places, and he fell through the ground! But in the end, everyone is. Then the game starts again, but the one who was found first drives.
And if someone breaks the agreement and hides where it is impossible, then he is turned off from the game.
While the driver is looking, you cannot run from one place to another, so that he does not have to look at the same place several times. Otherwise, the game may never end.
But usually you don't have to drive in hide and seek for a long time, unless someone has hidden very cunningly.
I'll tell you how I once hid. Fifty years have passed since then, and I still remember!
It was in the village. We played near our house. And so it occurred to me to hide in plain sight for laughter. You probably saw how the corners were made at the village hut - the logs of two walls protrude from each other crosswise and form a small outer corner. So, I scrambled over the protruding ends of the logs to the very roof, where the swallow's nest stuck. I clung to my hands and stand in this corner. From above, I could see everything very well. And the main thing is that the driver was standing almost nearby, around the corner. From here he went to search. Many times he ran under me, but did not think to raise his head. He found everyone, but he can't find me. Found guys and girls see me, show each other, laugh, but they don't tell him.
Well, then he did find me, probably because he noticed where the guys were looking.
And the village kids up to ten years old played simpler hide and seek. And the rules were easier. The main difference here is that the driver, as soon as he found the first one, called his name right away, and then shouted: "To the porridge, guys!" Everyone came out of their hiding places, and the one found had to drive. He went to the "house", again asked: "Is it time?" - and everyone ran to hide again.
As you can see, there is no need to search here for a long time, therefore the number of players is not limited. But it is imperative to negotiate where you can hide and where you can't.
Well, for those who were not found, it is not at all necessary to run "for porridge" every time. They may not leave their seats if they are happy with them. Or they can hide. Usually those who think that the new driver could see where they hid are usually hide.
And a final note on hide and seek. If someone is called home, then he can leave the game only during the change of the driving player, so as not to disrupt the game for everyone else. At the same time, you can take into the game and others who want to play hide and seek with you. But the newly adopted must first drive, as they say - "to the new one."

Well, at the time when Pushkin lived, this game was called “kuluchki”, and not only children, but also young men and girls played it. Even then, she was considered "belonging to the domestic amusements of our ancestors" and was described as follows:
“One of the players sits down in a corner - chuckle; others cover his face, eyes, everything himself - with kerchiefs, various dresses, and he quickly whines:

Kulu, kulu - baba!
Don't gouge out your eyes
The eye on the police
The other is in salt lick.
Is it time or what?

At this time, all other players hide themselves in all possible, inconspicuous places. When will they hear: "Is it time, or what?" - they only answer him: "No!" Smoking begins again, again the question: "Is it time, or what?", Again the answer: "No!" This continues up to three times, and sometimes more, until all players have time to hide. Not receiving an answer to his "Is it time, or what?", He goes in search. The first, found by him, must replace him. It often happens that the gamblers make Kuluchka look for every one of them. "
Here Kulyuchka does not just say his sentence, he scares: look, they say, one eye is on my shelf, and the other in a salt shaker - I see everything! But there is also another meaning, useful for those who are hiding - when he mumbles like that, he himself hears less where they are hiding.
As you can see - how many years have passed! - and the rules of the game have hardly changed. And you, too, if you want, can play at home according to the old custom ...

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Buckles(another name: "Tuki-ta") (the described version of the rules in some places is called Moscow hide and seek) is a child's play.

Description of the game

At the beginning of the game, everyone gets together, then the driver, facing the wall, counts loudly to 100 (or another number). Sometimes tens of up to 100 or 200. Others hide at this time. Having counted to the required number, the driver goes to look for those who have hidden. Sometimes before that it is supposed to say “one-two-three-four-five, I'm going [all of you] to look for”, “it's time, it's not time, I'm going out of the yard” or “who didn’t hide, I’m not to blame”. Seeing the hiding one, he must be the first to run to the place from which he began to search, and touch the wall with his hand, pronouncing the agreed words that differ in different regions ("check", "magic wand", "pali-vyry", "tra-ta ta "," kuli-kuly "," tuki-ruki "," tuki-tuki for yourself "," ban-drum for yourself "," knock-knock for yourself "," knock-ta "," fired-knocked " , "I knocked and fell," "tuki-baki", "tulle-ya", "knock of a stick I"). Everyone who hides tries to be the first to do the same. The next driver is the one from the hiding, who was salted ("checked") first, and if no one was salted - the same as last time. You cannot hide behind the back or next to the driver. Sometimes, as an option, the last player can help out all "caught" and the driver drives again. To give dynamism to the game according to the conditions, the last "caught" becomes the driver.

Free players can help those not found yet by shouting hints like:

"Ax-ax, sit like a thief and do not look out into the yard" - means that the moment for the appearance is very unfavorable;
"Saw-saw, fly like an arrow" - the opposite meaning: there is an opportunity to overtake the driver, which means it's time to jump out of cover.

Also in the west, a version of the game of hide and seek is known using the name and surname of the famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo. In this game, the hunter commits to answer "Polo" when the seeker says "Marco". Often used in TV shows.

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“Is it coming soon? Is it coming soon? Oh, these unbearable streets, shops, rolls, lanterns, cabbies! " thought Rostov when they had already written down their vacations at the outpost and entered Moscow.
- Denisov, we have arrived! Sleeping! He said, leaning forward with his whole body, as if by this position he hoped to speed up the movement of the sleigh. Denisov did not respond.
- Here he is at the corner of the crossroads where Zakhar the cabby is standing; here he and Zakhar, and still the same horse. Here is the shop where they bought gingerbread. Is it coming soon? Well!
- Which house then? - asked the driver.
- Yes, at the end, to the big one, as you can't see! This is our home, - said Rostov, - this is our home! Denisov! Denisov! We’ll come now.
Denisov raised his head, cleared his throat and said nothing.
- Dmitry, - Rostov turned to the footman at the irradiation. - It's our fire, isn't it?
- So exactly with and at papa's office lights up.
- Haven't you gone to bed yet? A? how do you think? Look, don't forget, get me a new Hungarian coat at once, 'added Rostov, feeling his new mustache. - Come on, - he shouted to the driver. - Yes, wake up, Vasya, - he turned to Denisov, who again bowed his head. - Come on, let's go, three rubles for vodka, let's go! - shouted Rostov, when the sledges were already three houses from the entrance. It seemed to him that the horses were not moving. Finally the sleigh took to the right to the entrance; over his head Rostov saw the familiar cornice with broken plaster, a porch, a sidewalk post. He jumped out of the sleigh on the move and ran into the passage. The house also stood motionless, unhappy, as if it didn’t care who had come to it. There was no one in the hallway. "My God! is everything all right? " thought Rostov, stopping for a minute with a sinking heart and immediately starting to run further along the passage and the familiar, curving steps. All the same door handle of the lock, for the uncleanness of which the countess was angry, also weakly opened. One tallow candle burned in the hall.
Old man Mikhaila slept on a chest. Prokofy, a visiting footman, the one who was so strong that he lifted the carriage by the back, sat and knitted bast shoes from the edges. He glanced at the opened door, and his indifferent, sleepy expression suddenly changed into ecstatic frightened.
- Fathers, lights! The count is young! He cried, recognizing the young master. - What is it? My dear! - And Prokofy, shaking with excitement, rushed to the door to the drawing-room, probably to announce, but apparently changed his mind again, came back and leaned on the shoulder of the young master.
- Are you healthy? Asked Rostov, pulling his hand away from him.
- Thank God! All glory to God! just ate now! Let me see you, your Excellency!
- All right?
- Thank God, thank God!

Another story

When I was six years old, we had our own house in the village. In the first summer I made a bunch of friends there pretty quickly, but I especially became friends with a girl my age.

I will try to lay out the essence as quickly as possible.

All in all, one of our favorite pastimes was hide and seek. Since we played almost every day, I knew that her favorite hideout was the corner behind my stove. As a standard, she hid there every two horses.

And so we play again. I drive. I began to search, although while I was counting, I clearly heard the typical fuss behind the stove. I searched the cupboards and under the beds for decency and moved behind the stove. But she was not there. This confused me a little, because I heard how she was hiding there again.

I ransacked the whole house, even went out into the street and searched all the sheds and, desperate to find her, I began to shout that I was giving up. I shouted like that for about twenty minutes, at least, but she never showed up. Then I just went about my business, thinking that sooner or later she herself will come out of hiding. But more than an hour passed, and she was still gone. My parents began to wonder where my friend had gone, to which I replied that she had gone home.

In the evening of the same day, her grandmother came to us and began to ask about her granddaughter. I said hesitantly that she had gone home. Until late in the evening, the whole family helped to look for her, because it turned out that she had not been at home in the morning. Toward midnight, the tear-stained grandmother went home, and my parents interrogated me for another half hour, but I had nothing to answer.

The next morning my parents set off to find this little girl again while I stayed at home. And then, less than an hour later, someone crept up to me from the back and abruptly grabbed me by the shoulders. I shuddered and screamed. Turning around, I saw my girlfriend. “Now I'm driving,” she said as if nothing had happened.

When I told her that my and her relatives had been looking for her for almost a day, she just laughed and did not believe me. According to her, she stood for 15 minutes behind the stove, as always, and when she got tired of it, she went out and just went to me. At home she was reprimanded, although she herself did not understand at all why she was being scolded, and I had additional interrogations ahead of me.

I went to that dacha four more times and each time we discussed that story with her and could not find an explanation for what had happened. So it goes