International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
This is the hope that myth and legend sets before us: that we all, if we pursue our odyssey to the end, will find ourselves and ...
(fl. c. AD 100) also gave us versions of the stories. Other sources are the odes of Pindar (c. 502–446 BC) and the Greek dramati ...
digestible prose. Sheila Egoff dismisses most modern retellers, such as Roger Lancelyn Green in Tales of the Greek Heroes (1958) ...
(1982) of Beowulf the Anglo-Saxon poem, dating back to before AD 1000 is extended to become an atmospheric horror-hero story by ...
exploring world mythology they provide an invaluable resource. Similarly Penelope Farmer’s Beginnings: Creation Myths of the Wor ...
Murray, H.A. (ed.) (1960) Myth and Mythmaking, Boston: Beacon Press. Sirk, G.S. (1970) Myth, Its Meaning and Functions in Ancien ...
15 Playground Rhymes and the Oral Tradition Iona Opie The traditional verbal lore available to children up to the age of about e ...
occasional rhymes to chant when it is raining or snowing, or when a ladybird or snail is encountered. Alphabet and number rhymes ...
that Sir Charles Sedley wrote ‘There was a little man, And he woo’ed a little maid’ (1764), and Septimus Winner ‘Oh where, oh wh ...
type, tried out during the siege of Gloucester in 1643, a theory Professor David Daube put forward in The Oxford Magazine of 16 ...
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Eating black bananas. Where do you think he put the skins? Down his best pyjamas. Their mockery incl ...
at Hallowe’en, they like to frighten each other with spooky tales, told softly, in which the tension builds up until the last wo ...
avoiding danger. Some of the more jocular rhymes celebrating the night linger on in Scotland: This is the nicht o’ Halloween Whe ...
You’re daft, you’re potty, you’re barmy. Someone thought to be staring too hard (an intrusion on privacy which is universally re ...
the following, which has fifteen counts: Errie, orrie, round the table, Eat as much as you are able; If you’re able eat the tabl ...
Catch a nigger by his toe, If he squeals, let him go, Eenie, meenie, minie, mo whose predecessors in the nineteenth century were ...
She’s in, she’s in, she’s never been out, She’s in the parlour walking about. She comes down as white as snow, With a baby in he ...
Some of the words girls chant while juggling two balls against a wall have instructions built into them—‘Oliver Twist’ for insta ...
and the whole scene is gone through again and again until all the chickens have been caught. The game has been known under many ...
——(1985) The Singing Game, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ritchie, J.T. R. (1964) The Singing Street, Edinburgh and London: Ol ...
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