Aunt Sally based on a blackface doll itself inspired by a low-life character named "Black Sal", which appeared in an 1821 series of novellas entitled "Life of London" by Pierce Egan, a contemporary of Charles Dickens. The game dates back to the 17th century, although the name "Aunt Sally" may have been a later addition. It was traditionally played in central English pubs and fairgrounds. An Aunt Sally was originally the modelled head of an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth; the object was for players to throw sticks at the head in order to break the pipe. The
The Old Woman in the Wood a specific door (which turns out to be the nose of a skull placed on top of a rotating shelf), then find the plain ring and bring it to the owl. The Old Woman in the Wood "The Old Woman in the Wood" ) is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 123. It is Aarne-Thompson type 442. A beautiful but poor servant girl traveled with the family she worked for when robbers attacked them. She hid behind a tree, but no one else survived. She lamented her fate, and a dove came to her with