>>45990595oh oops sorry, ok so england had a huge victorian seaside holiday culture. it involved things like setting up huge funfair piers, and these puppet shows for toddlers/young kids called punch and judy. punch and judy were already hundreds of years old back then, and today they haven't been modernised at all, they exist as little relics of victorian seaside culture in super old fashioned little puppet tents, with the same plot, and the same little wooden puppets. the plot is that the main character, punch, kills his baby by throwing it out the window, then his wife, then a policeman comes to arrest him and he beats him with a stick, then a crocodile eats him. the crocodile also steals sausages at some point. swazzage is basically a snake version of the punch and judy crocodile, with its cloth body and clacky wooden head. if you x rayed swazzage, its skeleton would just be a giant hand bones.
select punch and judy quotes for you:
"Why is there a crocodile in Punch and Judy?
In any case, the Crocodile's role is to avenge the deaths of everyone Punch has killed; he's Punch's comeuppance for his evil ways. Punch is generally eaten, or at least bitten by the Crocodile."*
"Judy: "You heard. Give ME the stick!"
And so Punch says "Alright" and knocks her down below. "That's the way to do it! Bye-bye, Judy.""
"Eventually Punch gets the stick and starts hitting Judy saying "Take that- and that - and that. That's the way to do it to 'em!" He knocks down Judy to the stage. Punch is surprised to find that she is lifeless saying "Judy my girl I won't hurt you."
