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Martin Gardner included this fold, described as both a bug catcher and fortune-teller, in a column in Hugard's Magic Monthly, titled "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic", in the 1950s. [22] Although the phrase "cootie catcher" has been used with other meanings in the U.S. for much longer, [ 23 ] the use of the phrase for paper cootie catchers in ...
A hand-held game, the Cootie Game, was made by the Irvin-Smith Company of Chicago in 1915; it involved tilting capsules (the cooties) into a trap over a background illustration depicting a battlefield. [6] Other cootie games followed, all involving some form of "bug" or "cootie", [6] until The Game of Cootie was launched in 1948 by Schaper Toys ...
The game was invented in 1948 by William H. Schaper, a manufacturer of small commercial popcorn machines in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.It was likely inspired by an earlier pencil-and-paper game where players drew cootie parts according to a dice roll and/or a 1939 game version of that using cardboard parts with a cootie board. [2]
Original Cootie box cover, 1949. Schaper Toys, or W.H. Schaper Mfg. Co., Inc. as it was originally known, was a game and toy company founded in 1949 by William Herbert Schaper in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. "Herb" Schaper published a variety of games but was best known for having created the children's game, Cootie. [1]
Cooties aren't even heard of in most of the world outside of US television which just adds to the ambiguity of the term cootie catcher. I propose something like fortune teller (origami) or paper fortune teller. An t isora 14:37, 13 November 2007 (UTC) Agreed. I can say it's not a cootie catcher where I grew up in Texas.
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