This is continued as in the Babyland game till every child has had its turn. There is no sequel. In the German game the woman who owns the children is called sometimes Mary, sometimes Witch, but usually she has the name of a heathen divinity. Thus in Mecklenburg she is _Fru Goden_ or _Fru Gol_ (No. 11). Gode is the name of a mother divinity, who, as _Godmor_, is the mother of Thor (Gr., p. 209, note). In the game as played in Prussia (No. 10), in Elsass (No. 3), in Swabia (No. 2), and in Aargau (No. 4), she is _Frau Ros_ or _Frau Rose_, that is Lady Ros or Rose; while in Pommerellen she is either _Ole Moder Rose_ or _Ole Moder Taersche_ (No. 1), a word that signifies witch. In Holstein, on the other hand, the alternative is recorded as _Fru Rosen_ or _Mutter Marie_, Mother Mary (No. 9), while in Appenzell (No. 5) and near Dunkirk (No. 6) the owner of the children is _Marei Muetter Gotts_, i.e. Mary the Mother of God. Mannhardt points out that Ross, sometimes Rose, is the name of a German mother divinity who occurs frequently in German folk-lore. I have come across Mother Ross in our own chapbook literature, where the name may be traditional also. Mary indicates the substitution of a Christian name in the place of the older heathen one. In Sweden the owner of many babes is _Fru Sole_, who is represented as sitting in heaven surrounded by her daughters, who are described as chickens (No. 14). The game of securing children is called in Switzerland _Das Englein aufziehen_ (No. 5), that is, "the drawing forth of an angel." The word _Engel_, angel, according to the information collected by Mannhardt, originally designates the spirit that awaits re-birth. For the heathen inhabitants of Northern Europe, including the Kelts, were unable to realize individual death. They held that the living spirit passed away with death, but continued in existence, and again reappeared under another shape. In the civilization that belonged to the mother age, these spirits or angels that awaited re-birth, peopled the realm which was associated with divine mothers or mother divinities. At a later period, transferred into Christian belief, they were pictured as a host of winged babes, whom we find represented in mediaeval art hovering around the Virgin Mother and Child. The land in which the unborn spirits dwelt, is generally spoken of in German nursery and folk rhymes as _Engelland_, an expression which forms a direct parallel to the expression Babyland of our game. Thus the _Woman of Babyland_, like _Frau Rose_ or _Frau Gode_ of the German game, was in all probability a divine mother, who was the owner of the spirits or babes that awaited re-birth.