Knock, knock, ginger
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Knock, knock, ginger (also known as ding, dong, ditch and ring and run in the United States) is a prank or game dating back to 19th-century England, or possibly the earlier Cornish traditional holiday of Nickanan Night. The game is played by children in many cultures. It involves knocking on the front door (or ringing the doorbell) of a victim, then running away before the door can be answered.[1]
The name knock, knock, ginger, “knock down ginger” or knocky door ginger, used in parts of Southern England, is attested at least as early as 1867, in an English poem found in the "Childhood in Poetry" collection: