Gyermekdalok, mondókák Csókán és környékén
Nursery Rhymes in Csóka and its Surroundings

Summary/Abstract: Collecting traditional children's plays is an important task of our ethnographic research. Not only to capture the current knowledge, but also to deepen our self-knowledge, as children's plays are the remnants of events and rituals from ancient times. This thesis includes the part of the childlore with nursery rymes, lores, riddles and pranks. The material can be divided into two parts. The first part contains nursery rymes that adulsts tell or sing to infants (lullabies, caressing rymes, healing rhymes). In the second part there are rhymes that are commonly spoken or sung among children. In addition there are stories about nature and plants, fables, onomatopoeas and riddles. All children's rymes recorded in Csóka and its surrounding have characteristic rhythms and usually represent a boundary between speech and singing. The textual parts are often on the local dialect.

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