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First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."… (mere)
Fascinating collection of all those rhymes, tricks, games, superstitions, etc. from childhood. Mainly written in the 1950s, this is the updated 1980s edition with a new introduction. Very interesting to see the regional and chronological variations e.g. what do you say to get temporary respite from a game? Vainites? Fainites? Cruces? Kings? ( )
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Preface More than 200 years ago Queen Anne's physician John Arbuthnot, friend of Swift and Pope, observed that nowhere was tradition preserved pure and uncorrupt 'but amongst School-boys, whose Games and Plays are delivered down invariably from one generation to another'.
I Introductory The scraps of lore which children learn from each other are at once more real, more immediately serviceable, and more vastly entertaining to them than anything which they learn from grown-up.
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Fortunately for householders the ring or hoop type of knocker is rare now (is this the reason?) and Toby might find it difficult to reconstruct his mechanism today.
First published in 1959, Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature. Going outside the nursery, with its assortment of parent-approved entertainments, to observe and investigate the day-to-day creative intelligence and activities of children, the Opies bring to life the rites and rhymes, jokes and jeers, laws, games, and secret spells of what has been called "the greatest of savage tribes, and the only one which shows no signs of dying out."
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