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The Widow on the Marriage Market

Automatic translation. This text has not been verified by a person.
Translation detailsModel: mistral-large-2512.

A game from certain rural areas of Lesser Poland, suitable for girls’ secondary schools. The girls form a circle, moving while singing; in the center stands the widow, and on the circumference are her daughters. They sing similarly: d e a f, l a m e, adding appropriate movements each time; then y o u n g. At this, the widow, who was limping during the previous verses, begins to hop. Finally, she leaps out of the circle over the arms of her daughters; the one whose right hand the widow jumps over takes her place in the center.


Transcription scope: musical notation and song lyrics omitted as material outside the corpus scope; exact boundaries recorded in the extraction report.

Source scan: Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library, marked “Public Domain”. View PDF — page 79.

  • Type: game
  • Traits: Not stated in the source
  • Source: Eugeniusz Piasecki, Zabawy i gry ruchowe dzieci i młodzieży (1922)
  • Printed pages: 74–75 / PDF 79–80
  • Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
  • Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 74
  • Read the source text: zgr-021