Children's folklore

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In folkloric narrative research, child folklore refers to the entirety of the linguistic and non-linguistic phenomena that are common in children and that are passed on through social transmission from children to children , i.e. not mainly through adults. Necessary conditions for this are unplanned children's groups - or kindergartens and schools - as well as public places (streets, backyards, parks, etc.) where the children feel undisturbed.

Children's folklore is an important part of children's play . Also Kinderschreck figures , childlike faith , lullabies , finger rhymes , language games and the like can be among them.

Children's folklore in other countries

English speaking area

A group of kids in New York

In the English-speaking world, children's street culture has also found its way into printed children's literature to a considerable extent , e.g. As in the popular Mother Goose -Expenditure: These are collections of traditional nursery rhymes ( nursery rhymes ), which in the United States find themselves in primary education use.

A large part of the traditional children's games reached the USA via European migration, and many of these games are also common in German-speaking countries, such as: As the game of hide ( Hide and seek ), Catching ( day ), Plumpsack ( Duck Duck Goose ), Leapfrog ( Leapfrog ), hopscotch ( Hopscotch ), jumping rope ( Jump rope ), Gummitwist ( Chinese jump rope ), thread Games ( Cat's Cradle ) , Finger games like heaven or hell ( cootie catcher ), scissors, stone, paper ( rock-paper-scissors ), I see what you don't see ( I spy ), silent mail ( telephone ), father-mother-child role-play ( House ) and doctor games ( Doctor ). Others - such as Follow the Leader , Red light / Green light , Simon Says - are largely unknown in Germany.

Are popular with girls clapping games , which - like the jump rope and hopscotch game - be accompanied by special rhyme (eg. Mary Mack ). Other collections of American children's folklore include child scare characters such as Bloody Mary and the Bogeyman, as well as traditional children's songs , playground songs (e.g. This Old Man , KISSING ), joke songs (e.g. Comet ), nursery rhymes, counting rhymes , joke questions and knock-knock jokes . In Germany, many customs of American children are hardly known, such as B. that of Opposite Day , d. H. a holiday proclaimed by children where unusual clothing is worn and the opposite of what is meant is said.

The personalities who have made particular contributions to the documentation of English-language children's folklore include the storytellers Iona and Peter Opie , the photographers Roger Mayne , Helen Levitt , David Trainer , Humphrey Spender and Robert Doisneau , and the writers Colin Ward ( The Child In The City , 1978) and Robin Moore . The journal Children's Geographies has been published in New York since 2003 and is devoted exclusively to this research area.

Occasionally children's folklore was also the central theme of feature films, for example in Hue and Cry (GB 1947).

→ See also: Childhood and Adolescence in the United States

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Peter & Iona Opie Collection of Folklore and Related Topics
2. ↑ Humphrey Spender ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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literature

• Joanna Cole, Stephanie Calmenson: Miss Mary Mack and Other Children's Street Rhymes , HarperCollins, 1990, ISBN 0688097499 (Engl.)
• Norbert Kühne : 30 kilos of fever - children's poetry , Ammann-Verlag, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-250-10326-8
• Jack Macquire: Hopscotch, Hangman, Hot Potato, & Ha Ha Ha: A Rulebook for Children's Games , Fireside, 1990, ISBN 0671763326 (Engl.)
• Alfred Messerli: Children's Folklore. In: Enzyklopädie des Märchen Vol. 7 (1993), Col. 1269-1278.
• Judy Sierra: Schoolyard Rhymes: Kids' Own Rhymes for Rope-Skipping, Hand Clapping, Ball Bouncing, and Just Plain Fun , Knopf, 2005, ISBN 0375825169 (Eng.)