Rhythm - rhythm is an especially important aspect of the prosody of nursery rhyme (along with intonation, stress and tempo of speech).In her paper “ From nursery rhymes to childlore: orality and ideology“, Catalina Millán Scheiding writes about the enduring popularity of nursery rhymes under the following headings:
Nursery rhymes have a proven track record for memorability and infiltration into the real lives of children (and caregivers). While this onomatopoeia doesn’t directly function as a magic word, it signals that the children have entered an enchanted realm.įor the answer to this, I turn to the work of scholars who have studied nursery rhymes.
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Harry Potter is full of them: Riddikulus, Obliviat, Alohomora etc.Nickety Nacketty Noo Noo Noo by Joy Cowley, in which the spell is in the title.Alison Lurie, Don’t Tell The Grownups: The subversive power of children’s literature 1920s Magic poster ‘Brush The Mystic The Hindu Basket’ Examples of Magic Words and Spells As they grow older and more competent linguistically they become impatient with such tales they learn that the magic spell doesn’t always work and that words don’t always mean what they seem to mean. Small children like simple, repetitive rhymes and games, just as they like repetitive or cumulative folktales such as The Gingerbread Man. From this experience, surely, comes the power of magic words and spells in fairytales. Though we all once experienced it, it is hard now to picture the immense thrill of power we must have felt the first time we cried “Mommy!” or “Cookie!” and saw what we desired appear. For all of her life she has been inarticulate - she wants something, but all she can do is cry or say “Uh, uh, uh!” Then, somehow, the purpose of speech is revealed to her, and after what must be a tremendous struggle, the power of speech. Imagine a baby on the verge of learning to speak. The Witch of Hissing Hill by Mary Calhoun, illustrated by Janet McCaffery (1964) Where Do Magic Words Come From? These magic words sometimes become a part of the child’s own imaginative play, an improvised version of early childhood fan fiction. In children’s fantasy, enchanted realism and magical realism, there is often an arc word ( leitwort) which enters popular lexicon, or sticks in the mind long after the reader leaves the story.
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