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|Term=Cora
|Term=Cora
|Game Family=Kickball
|Game Family=Kickball
|Description=<p>This game, encountered in Upper Egypt in the 1850s, is briefly described: it is &ldquo;played likewise with a ball; one tosses it, and another strikes it with his hand, and runs to certain limits, if he can, without being hit by a &lsquo;fag&rsquo; who picks up the ball and throws in.&rdquo;</p>
|Description=<p>This game, encountered in Upper Egypt in the 1850s, is briefly described: it is “played likewise with a ball; one tosses it, and another strikes it with his hand, and runs to certain limits, if he can, without being hit by a ‘fag’ who picks up the ball and throws in.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>G. T. Lowth,&nbsp;</span><em>The Wanderer in&nbsp;Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks</em><span>&nbsp;(Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), page 109.</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span>G. T. Lowth, </span><em>The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks</em><span> (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), page 109.</span></p>
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Glossary of Games
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Game Cora
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Description

This game, encountered in Upper Egypt in the 1850s, is briefly described: it is “played likewise with a ball; one tosses it, and another strikes it with his hand, and runs to certain limits, if he can, without being hit by a ‘fag’ who picks up the ball and throws in.”

Sources

G. T. Lowth, The Wanderer in Arabia; or, Western Footsteps in Eastern Tracks (Hurst and Blackett, London, 1855), page 109.

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