Page:The Folk-Lore Journal Volume 4 1886.djvu/144

136 Some reverse the order of touching the parts of the face, as the following formula shows:—

Compare with this the Dutch rhyme beginning "Kintje"; "Formulettes du visage" (b, c, d, e, f ); and the Sicilian Varvarutteddu.

(B)—"."

In this amusement each part of the head is touched in a manner imitative of the action indicated by the words, and the line repeated. There are several variants of the formula:—