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Three
Examples and Texts
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his chapter presents children’s folklore that was published or collected from
the early twentieth century to the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Sources
include folklore archives, journals, books, dissertations, and Web sites.
Some of the material comes from my own fieldwork in Indiana, Maine, and New
York. When possible, I include information about informants’ ethnicities. Most
child informants have pseudonyms; the few
names come from publications, ar-
chives, and Web sites.
Children’s folklore surveys since the mid-twentieth century have focused
primarily on verbal lore, rituals, and games, but some have considered ma-
terial culture as well. Simon J. Bronner’s
American Children’s Folklore
(1988)
begins with folk speech, rhymes, songs, riddles, and
jokes and then covers nar-
ratives, customs, rituals, games, toys, and other forms of material culture. This
handbook follows a similar sequence. For the greatest possible accessibility,
this chapter follows the same order as that of the children’s folklore genres in
chapter 2. Since chapter 2 includes many examples of speech play, that genre
does not appear here.
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