Pub games an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. The object was for players to throw sticks at the head in order to break the pipe. The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. The ball is on a short plinth about 4 inches (10 cm) high, and is known as a 'dolly'. The dolly is placed on a dog-legged metal spike and players throw sticks or short battens at the dolly, trying to
The Old Woman in the Wood Woman in the Wood" is featured in "Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics", with several changes. The talking dove is an owl, his tree form only appears at the end, and in his owl form he has more direct interactions with the servant girl, here named Elisabeth. The witch attacks the family with a horde of goblins instead of a band of robbers. The tasks that Elisabeth faces are slightly different to the original ones: she must go inside the house without anyone noticing her (not even the Witch), look for a specific magical key in the witch's studio, use it on