Siklódi Csilla szerk.: Tradicionális sportok, népi játékok (A Sportmúzeum Kincsei 2. Budapest, 1996)

Méta, csürök, karika (Kriston Vízi József)

games, song-and-dance games, run-and-chase games, as well as games involving manual skills drew from a still living tradition. Finally, mention needs to be made of Gyula Hajdú, the renowned sports trainer and lus works. Hajdú was a pioneer in putting into practice and unwaveringly disseminating the results of these collections and catalogues of games in day to day education from the mid-1950s. His book, Magyar népi játékok gyűjteménye [A compendium of Hungarian folk games], published in 1971, soon became an extremely popular handbook. The tangible relics of folk games can be found in the collections of most Hungarian museums, while the photo- and other archives of these museums generally contain a wide range of documents. Most notable among these is the Games Archives in the Institute of Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, directed by Katalin Lázár, an ethnographer and music pedagogue. The Szórakaténusz, the Hungarian Games Museum in Kecskemét, has over 17,000 relics, while the documents in the archives, running well into the thousands, include manuscripts describing various mimetic and sports-like 'folk' games. Some of these are undoubtedly precious relics worthy of preservation, but — perhaps even more important — they should become a source of new games !