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Childlore, the Glossary

Index Childlore

Childlore is the folklore or folk culture of children and young people.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Brian Sutton-Smith, Buck buck, Child, Children's street culture, Code, Cooties, Daydreaming, Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun, Fantasy, Folklore, Hero, Imaginary friend, Iona and Peter Opie, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Jean Loret, Joke, Latin American childlore, Mother Goose, Nero, Nickname, Nursery rhyme, Obscenity, Parody, Practical joke, Rhyme, Rhyme scheme, Riddle, Ring a Ring o' Roses, Scrapbooking, Superstition, Wit.

  2. Children's entertainment
  3. Children's street culture
  4. Folk culture

Brian Sutton-Smith

Brian Sutton Smith (July 15, 1924 – March 7, 2015), better known as Brian Sutton-Smith, was a play theorist who spent his lifetime attempting to discover the cultural significance of play in human life, arguing that any useful definition of play must apply to both adults and children.

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Buck buck

Buck buck (also known as Johnny-on-a-Pony, or Johnny-on-the-Pony) is a children's game with several variants.

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Child

A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.

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Children's street culture

Children's street culture refers to the cumulative culture created by young children.

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Code

In communications and information processing, code is a system of rules to convert information—such as a letter, word, sound, image, or gesture—into another form, sometimes shortened or secret, for communication through a communication channel or storage in a storage medium.

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Cooties

Cooties is a fictitious childhood disease, commonly represented as childlore. Childlore and Cooties are Folklore.

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Daydreaming

Daydreaming is a stream of consciousness that detaches from current external tasks when one's attention becomes focused on a more personal and internal direction.

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Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun

Song Dong, Dong, Dongdaemun is a nursery rhyme sung among Korean children, usually while playing a game.

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Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture. Childlore and Folklore are folk culture.

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Hero

A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength.

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Imaginary friend

Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends, invisible friends or made-up friends) are a psychological and a social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality.

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Iona and Peter Opie

Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play, in studies such as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959). Childlore and Iona and Peter Opie are children's street culture.

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Itsy Bitsy Spider

"The Itsy Bitsy Spider" (also known as "The Incy Wincy Spider" in Australia, Great Britain, and other anglophone countries) is a popular nursery rhyme, folksong, and fingerplay that describes the adventures of a spider as it ascends, descends, and re-ascends the downspout or "waterspout" of a gutter system or open-air reservoir.

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Jean Loret

Jean Loret (ca 1600-1665) was a French writer and poet known for publishing the weekly news of Parisian society (including, initially, its pinnacle, the court of Louis XIV itself) from 1650 until 1665 in verse in what he called a gazette burlesque.

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Joke

A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally.

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Latin American childlore

Latin American childlore, the childlore of Latin American countries, has still not been studied to the same extent as that of other countries.

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Mother Goose

Mother Goose is a character that originated in children's fiction, as the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes.

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Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68) was a Roman emperor and the final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 until his death in AD 68.

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Nickname

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Obscenity

An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Practical joke

A practical joke or prank is a trick played on people or people, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.

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Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words.

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Rhyme scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Ring a Ring o' Roses

"Ring a Ring o' Roses", "Ring a Ring o' Rosie", or (in the United States) "Ring Around the Rosie", is a nursery rhyme, folk song and playground singing game.

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Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box, or card.

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Superstition

A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural influence, or fear of that which is unknown.

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Wit

Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny.

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See also

Children's entertainment

Children's street culture

Folk culture

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore

Also known as Children's folklore.