Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Setting riddles and other pastimes on Yell.
Contributors - Tom Tulloch
Reporters - Peter R. Cooke

Summary - Setting riddles and other pastimes on Yell.

Some guddicks [riddles] from Yell, including one about the moon and one about milking. Setting guddicks was referred to as 'laying up guddicks'. Some guddicks were adult in nature.

Another form of entertainment was drawing lines in the ash to represent boys, which the girls picked out randomly by reciting a verse; the other youngsters would try to figure out through questioning which was which. Another game involved passing the tongs while repeating a dialect saying; a mistake led to punishment.


Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:06:54
Date Recorded - 1973.01.05
Language - English, Scots
Genre - Verse, Information, Other
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 82294
Original Tape ID - SA1973.001
Original Track ID - SA1973.1.2a; SA1973.1.2b; 2c; 2d; 2e; 3; 4
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Item Location:
  County - Shetland
  Parish - Yell
  Island - Yell

Item Notes - See:
'Scottish Studies' 4, no. 180 ff.; no. 122 ff.

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/82294/1


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