Columnist Susan Wozniak: Propaganda is the crack a nation might step on

Columnist Susan Wozniak: Propaganda is the crack a nation might step on
SUSAN WOZNIAK
Published: 6/28/2021 7:09:02 PM
Does folklore still matter? Is there an oral culture? In the era of social media allowing instant conversations across the world, the question might seem absurd. Unless, that is, while you’re taking your 4-year-old granddaughter for a walk, she says to you, “Gwanma, do you know if you step on a cwack, you get dead?”
I laughed — but only in my mind — because when I was in elementary school, kids chanted, “If you step on a crack, you break your mother’s back. If you step on a line, you break the devil’s spine.” That’s folklore, as are the games children might play at recess, like Red Rover, or the chants girls recite while jumping rope.

Related Keywords

Hungary , Russia , Hungarian , Susan Wozniak , Catholic Church Counter Reformation , Red Rover , Great Aunt Elizabeth , Great Aunt Harriet , Catholic Church , பசி , ரஷ்யா , சூசன் வோஜ்ணியக் , சிவப்பு சுற்று , கத்தோலிக் தேவாலயம் ,