Cat's Cradle Game History

Cats Cradle has moved a few times in its 50 years including to locations on Franklin and Rosemary streets in Chapel Hill.

Cat's cradle game history. The use of cats in the cradle to describe something dangerous appears to come from an old wives tale that if allowed into its crib a cat would kill an infant by sucking out its breath. Rather it was developed independently by many cultures around the same time. It is a type of string figure.

Included are directions for four classic string games. It is one of the oldest examples of human play and thus ties in with the idea that the book though grounded in a specific historical moment is principally concerned with the entirety of the human story. Whale and fox.

Back when I was in middle school I went through a phase where I was really into cats cradle. Cats Cradle is one of the oldest games in human history. According to Edward Tregear in The Maori race 1904 the Cats Cradle whai huhi or maui was known to the Maoris as to almost all the inhabitants of the Malay Archipelago and South SeasIt was played with the two hands and a piece of string assuming very complicated forms.

String games like this one have a rich and varied history. The art of making pictures or telling stories with string and your hands or sometimes feet. The cats cradle is a game played with string one of the oldest games in human history.

It is thought that this particular game traveled to Europe in the early seventeenth century with the tea trade from Asia. Cup and Saucer The Witchs Broom Cats Cradle and Jacobs Ladder as well as a brief history of string games. The cats cradle string game has been played since ancient times all over the world.

Variations of the game have been found in cultures across the world including Eastern Asia Africa the Americas and even the Arctic giving the game a significant amount of interest among anthropologists and ethnologists. Cup and Saucer The Witchs Broom Cats Cradle and Jacobs Ladder as well as a brief history of string games. Im one of those people who like to have something to fiddle with in their hands and it was easy to carry a loop of string in my pocket.