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Characteristics Of Mysterious Snipe

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I’ve participated in this kind of thing as well growing up. We’d do it during family reunions, but the “snipe” was always a little toy of some kind. The older kids had to search for the “snipe” at night though with the adults hiding in the trees, trying to scare them as they passed.
I think this example fits into the characteristics of folklore discussed in the lecture as a combination of verbal and kinesthetic. It has the story of trying to find this mysterious snipe as the verbal part of folklore, and then as the game and custom aspect of kinesthetic as people go out and try and find one.
Throughout the region they are probably different versions of snipe hunting, so I’d say it still fall into the Folk category as each family or community

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