Put Your Finger in the Corbie's Hole

DESCRIPTION: "Put your finger in the Corbie's hole [or "in Tabby's house," or "in Foxy's hole"], Corbie's not at home. Corbie's at the back door, Picking at a bone." The game, if the victim does not escape soon enough, ends with the victim's finger being pinched
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1842 (Chambers, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: playparty bird animal trick food
FOUND IN: Britain(Scotland) New Zealand Ireland
REFERENCES (4 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 172, "Put Your Finger in Foxy's Hole" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #598, p. 237, "(Put your finger in foxy's hole)" (1 short text)
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, p. 183, "(Put your finger in Tabby's hole" (1 text)
Peirce-KeepTheKettleBoiling, p. 19, "(Put your finder in the crow's nest)" (1 text)
Roud #22997
File: SuSm183C

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