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Children’s games in the open air

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Posted on 2019-07-26 in
Looking for tadpoles. Ziortza Artabe

Looking for tadpoles. Ziortza Artabe Etxebarria. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Haurrak haurlan, goes a popular Basque saying, that is, play is the ‘work’ of childhood. And traditionally most of that play took place out in the open air.

In their playtime children interacted with animals. Ladybirds, for instance, were thought to be able to predict the weather. They would place the precious insect on the forefinger, and while it climbed up, said the following words:

Marigorri, gona gorri,
bihar eguzki ala euri? (more…)

Children’s games update

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Posted on 2017-06-02 in

School children. Zeanuri (Bizkaia), 1913. Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Etniker Euskalerria Groups and Labayru Fundazioa together published in 1993 an extensive volume dedicated to children’s games in the Basque Country, featuring approximately a thousand pastimes. The work had a great reception, particularly among teachers and sportspeople, which led to a second edition in 2005. Besides, and due to the vast amount of information and data provided about the playful world of children, it served as a basis for subsequent studies, including a doctoral thesis presented at Paris-Sorbonne University, and furnished arguments for several television documentary scripts. (more…)

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