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This article attempts to describe traditional Polish finger games. The constitutive features of the genre of finger play are indicated, as well as the positive impact of the accompanying words on both the linguistic and motor development of young children. The main part of the article is the presentation of the most popular of the Polish texts, 'Tu sroczka kaszkę warzyła …' ('Here little magpie cooked porridge …'). This study provides a basic ethnolinguistic analysis of the variants of this text and demonstrates that this finger game has a pan-Slavic character. The article also briefly discusses other similar texts that are popular in Poland. The data that form the basis of this study were collected by the author in 2012–2017 during research in southern Poland, mainly in the Małopolska region, and in 2021 in Podkarpacie province, along with material from anthologies covering all of Poland and from folklore archives.
Barbara Żebrowska-Mazur (Tue,) studied this question.
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