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 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