Threading the Needle
Translation details
Model:mistral-large-2512.Translated text
Section titled “Translated text”A rural children’s game from the Kraków region, similar in application to the previous one. Children hold hands and stand side by side, forming an arch. The last two children from one end of the arch raise their hands, creating a gate; they ask a companion from the other end of the arch: — Do you have the keys? — I do. — Will you give them to the throne? — I will. — Let the gate pass through my barn! — After this dialogue, the children, still holding hands, run under the leadership of the first child under the gate, and when all have passed through, they stand again in a semicircle, and the game repeats as above, until all subsequent pairs form gates with their hands and let the next children pass through. In this way, the children eventually form a woven chain, standing in two rows opposite each other; each, with arms crossed in front, holds two others standing directly and slightly diagonally opposite.
Source scan: Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library, marked “Public Domain”. View PDF — page 73.
Metadata
Section titled “Metadata”- Type: game
- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Eugeniusz Piasecki, Zabawy i gry ruchowe dzieci i młodzieży (1922)
- Printed pages: 68 / PDF 73
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 68
- Read the source text: zgr-014