Old Mother Twitchett

DESCRIPTION: Riddle song(?). "Old Mother Twitchett had bout one eye, And a very long tail which she let fly, Every time she went through the gap, She left a piece of her tail in the trap." Answer: a needle/a needle and thread
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1600 (source: Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: riddle nonballad
FOUND IN: US(SE)
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 368, "Old Mother Twitchett" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #696, p. 273, "(Old Mother Twitchett Had But One Eye)"
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, (Peggy Cole and Sally Poole, informants), "Riddles," Vol. 1, No. 1 (Jun 1948), p. 28, "(Old Mother Twitchit)" (1 text)
NorthCarolinaFolkloreJournal, Joseph D. Clark, "More North Carolina Riddles," Vol. IX, No. 1 (Jul 1961), p. 15 (#76), "(Old Mother Twitchet)" (1 text)
Roud #20128
File: NCF1028F

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