Tricked a fool into four fists - an old children's teaser, familiar to everyone. In the sequel there is also a name. Offensive teaser, and even in rhyme. The most interesting thing is that both grandfathers and great-grandfathers knew her. Probably their ancestors knew many teasers that are still relevant to this day.
Teasers are one of the ways to form a child's society, when, with the help of fairly harmless actions, a certain etiquette is formed in a particular community. Teasers are classified according to the object of irritation:
• by name, • by appearance, • by behavioral signs.
Curiously, there is an excuse for almost every teaser, also in rhyme. That is, in this way a kind of opposition is formed, an opportunity to resist "public opinion".
The origin of teasers
Teasers, along with nursery rhymes, counting rhymes, riddles, are part of the game folklore, this is evidenced by their rhythm, a kind of word form and the unity of poetics.
There are several hypotheses for the origin of teasing children, but they all attribute their origin to adult folklore. Children's teasers are echoes of humorous ritual songs in rituals where another was exalted by the humiliation of one phenomenon.
Teasers can be part of old folk songs, chants, counting rhymes.
There are universal teasers, when any name can be inserted into existing text, and persistent ones, in which a rhymed component is tied to a specific name.
Nicknames
Anthroponymic studies give every reason to assume that the origin of modern nicknames is an echo of the way people were named in the days of paganism. For the ancient Russians, external, behavioral characteristics could have become a name. Modern nickname teasers are accompanied by rhymed epithets. The phenomenon is based on an archaic desire to harm a personal name.
At a certain age, a child goes through a developmental stage based on a mythological perception of the world, that is, identifies a name with a person.
Literary sources of teasers
Quotes from children's literary works can often become teasers.
Author's teasers are created taking into account the peculiarities of the genre, but do not have a specific object of ridicule
For example, Robin Bobin Barabek - Marshak's translation of the English teaser - is a collective image of a glutton. But author's teasers are not so popular, their introduction into the child's lexicon depends on parental activity, that is, on the amount of knowledge that parents consider it necessary to give children through a book.
The purpose of the teaser follows from its name, it is designed to annoy and evoke negative emotions. On the one hand, this is a clear manifestation of aggression, on the other, a teaser allows you to settle scores without resorting to physical force.
