Pig Snout

DESCRIPTION: "Pig snout, Walk out" (or "You are out")
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo)
KEYWORDS: playparty animal
FOUND IN: New Zealand Ireland
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 95, "(Pig snout)" (1 text)
Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo, p. 21, "(PIg's snout)" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 37, "(Pig)" (1 text)
NOTES [80 words]: The Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren version of this is so short that I hesitated over including it, and that in Withers-EenieMeenieMinieMo isn't any longer. I finally decided to list it, for a peculiar reason. In the Harry Potter books, one of the passwords to the Griffyndor common room is "Pig Snout." Did J. K. Rowling know this rhyme? After all, those who need the password to the common room are "out" -- as in, locked out of the dormitory. - RBW
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