{"id":23774,"date":"2025-12-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T09:34:46","slug":"regency-era-christmas-games-and-snap-dragon-christmas-holidays-customs-regencyera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=23774","title":{"rendered":"Christmas: Games and Snap Dragon played at a Bridgerton and Jane Austen Christmas. #Christmas #Holidays #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Games<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Christmas time, households had guests to stay and games were played to either fill in the time inside when the weather was too bad to venture out with sleds or skates, or to keep tradition. Blind man\u2019s bluff, forfeits, and snap dragon were all played.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A list of some entertainments for Christmas\u2026From The book Of Christmas by Thomas kibble Hervey. \u201cjugglers, and jack-puddings, scrambling for nuts and apples, dancing the hobby-horse, hunting owls and squirrels, the fool-plough, hot-cockles, a stick moving on a pivot, with an apple at one end and a candle at the other, so that he who missed his bite burned his nose, blindman\u2019s buffs, forfeits, interludes and mock plays :\u201d \u2014 also of \u201d thread my needle, Nan,\u201d \u201d he can do little that can\u2019t do this,\u201d feed the dove, hunt the slipper, shoeing the wild mare, post and pair, snap dragon, the gathering of omens\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Snap Dragon<\/strong> A favorite game was Snap Dragon, often played on Christmas Eve.  Raisins were put into a large, shallow bowl and brandy was poured over them and then ignited. &nbsp;Lights were extinguished to increase the eerie effect of the blue flames playing across the liquor. The object of the game was to reach through the blue flames and grab as many raisins as possible from the flaming brandy and pop them into your mouth. The risk of burning yourself increased the excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Johnson&#8217;s&nbsp;Dictionary of the English Language&nbsp;in 1755 describes the. game as &#8220;a play in which they catch raisins out of burning brandy and, extinguishing them by closing the mouth, eat them&#8221;.&nbsp;According to an eighteenth-century article in&nbsp;Richard Steele&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Tatler<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, &#8220;the wantonness of the thing was to see each other look like a&nbsp;demon, as we burnt ourselves, and snatched out the fruit.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snap-dragon was played in England, Canada, U\/S.A, and probably other countries with British backgrounds. The words&nbsp;<em>snap-dragon<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>flap-dragon<\/em>&nbsp;can refer to the game, the raisins used in the game, or the bowl with brandy and raisins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first reference to Snap-dragon as a game is in&nbsp;Francis Grose&#8217;s&nbsp;Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue&nbsp; in 1811.  &#8220;Christmas gambol: raisins and almonds being put into a bowl of brandy, and the candles extinguished, the spirit is set on fire, and the company scramble for the raisins.&#8221; Snap-dragon as a Christmas parlour game was mentioned in 1836 in&nbsp;Charles Dickens&#8217;&nbsp;The Pickwick Papers&nbsp;and in 1861, in&nbsp;Anthony Trollope&#8217;s novel&nbsp;Orley Farm.&nbsp; Lewis Carroll, in&nbsp;Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There&nbsp;in 1871 describes &#8220;A snap-dragon-fly. Its body is made of plum pudding, its wings of holly-leaves, and its head is a raisin burning in brandy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agatha Christie&#8217;s book&nbsp;Hallowe&#8217;en Party&nbsp;describes a children&#8217;s party during which a child&#8217;s murder causes Hercule Poirot to be brought in to solve the case and at which Snap-dragon is played at the end of the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A song went with the game\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHere he comes with flaming bowl,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t be mean to take his toll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Take care you don\u2019t take too much<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be not greedy in your clutch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With his blue and lapping tongue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of you will be stung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For he snaps at all that comes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snatching at his feast of plums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Old Christmas makes him come<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though he looks so fee! Fa! Fum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! Dragon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t `ee fear him, be but bold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out he goes, his flames are cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Snip! Snap! 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