How do you play as light as a feather stiff as a board?

The game usually involves a group of people lifting one single person using just their fingers while the person’s cause of death is read aloud (or simply the phrase, “she is dead”) before repeating the words, “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” At some point, the person in the middle will levitate.

What is the light as a feather stiff as a board chant?

The chant goes, “Light as a feather, stiff as a board.” Everyone says it over and over again, and as they begin to raise their hands under the person laying down, that person begins to float in the air.

Can you play light as a feather stiff as a board with only 2 people?

Do you need two people on the left and right side of the person to play “light as a feather stiff as a board”? That would be the typical way, but if you have more people, then you can improvise and put them at different parts of the body.

Where did light as a feather stiff as a board come from?

Though Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board is a staple of modern-day sleepovers, its origins go back to at least 1665. In a diary entry, naval administrator Samuel Pepys recorded a story told to him by a friend.

How many players do you need for Light as a feather, stiff as a board?

While it feels like you need to have stacks of occult books and secret witches for ancestors to make it work, all you need is four people and your hands.

What does as stiff as a board mean?

Inflexible, rigidly
Inflexible, rigidly formal, unbending, as in This cloth is stiff as a board; what happened to it? or There he stood, stiff as a poker, unwilling to give an inch.

Why can’t you move your ring finger without your middle finger?

Unfortunately for the ring and middle fingers, they have no independent flexors or extensors. Instead, they move only with the muscles common to all fingers. That’s why, for instance, when you try to stick out only your ring finger you feel a pull in your middle and pinky as well.