{62} The custom of a husband taking to his bed when his wife has borne a child is a curious superstition well-known to ethnologists and folk-lore students. The convenient name of _Couvade_, though originally applied to this custom by a mistake, has now become recognised, and it seems best to retain it. {66} It is unknown what the game of _Nimpole_ or _Nypollete_ was. But elsewhere it is coupled with games played on a board, _jeux de tables_, as if of the same nature as draughts or chess.