N013.06.00044

1935

Games for Halloween: Girl eating apple.

N013.06.00082

1935

Halloween Games: Halloween Divination. The girl in this photo is trying to find out about her future and is engaged in a game of marriage divination.

N013.10.00001

1980

Games for Halloween: Páistí gléasta suas ag dul ó theach go teach.

N038.01.00001

1959

Stick Games: Game of cad, Inis Meáin.

N038.01.00002

1959

Sticks Game: the game of ‘cad’, Inish Meadhon. The ‘cad’ (short length of stick: app 2 1/2”) lying against stone in the middle of the road; ‘cad’ is tapped with stick and jumps into the air about 4 or 5 feet thus; before it has time to fall to the roadway again, it is hit full-bloodedly into the adjacent fields. Each player has one try; the distance that the cad is hit is measured by the player with a stick app. 6ft long.