Hobby horse (toy)
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[[File:Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross 1 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg|thumb|[[William Wallace Denslow]]'s illustrations for a variant of [[Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross]], from a 1901 edition of [[Mother Goose]].]] |
[[File:Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross 1 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg|thumb|[[William Wallace Denslow]]'s illustrations for a variant of [[Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross]], from a 1901 edition of [[Mother Goose]].]] |
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A '''hobby horse''' (or '''hobby-horse''') is a child's [[toy]] [[horse]]. Children play at riding a horse made of a straight stick with a head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end. The bottom end of the stick sometimes had a small wheel or wheels attached. This toy was also sometimes known as a '''cock horse''' (as in the [[nursery rhyme]] ''[[Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross]]'') or '''stick horse'''. |
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Hobby horses feature in the worship of [[Rajasthan]]i folk deity [[Baba Ramdevji]], a reference to a [[Baba Ramdevji#Folklore about Baba Ramdevji|story about his childhood]]; wooden toy horses are popular offerings at his temple at [[Ramdevra]]. They also figured in the public rites of the [[Romania]]n [[Călușari]].O. Buhociu, ''Le folklore roumain de printemps'', 1957, p. 250 |
Hobby horses feature in the worship of [[Rajasthan]]i folk deity [[Baba Ramdevji]], a reference to a [[Baba Ramdevji#Folklore about Baba Ramdevji|story about his childhood]]; wooden toy horses are popular offerings at his temple at [[Ramdevra]]. They also figured in the public rites of the [[Romania]]n [[Călușari]].O. Buhociu, ''Le folklore roumain de printemps'', 1957, p. 250 |
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