Re: Pinching/St. Patrick's Day

[Melissa Davis <mbdavis@tenet.edu>]

Ken Umbach wrote:
>
> You mean there are people who do NOT know about this?  It was just part of
> the St. Patrick's day lore where I grew up (Southern California), and I have
> never run into anyone who was not familiar with the tradition of pinching
> those not wearing green on that day.  It was standard Kid Stuff, like cat's
> cradles, paper-scissors-rock, hopscotch, and the finer points of blowing
> bubbles with Double Bubble gum.  (Though St. Patrick's day pinching pretty

AMEN, Ken! Same for southeast Texas (around Houston) where I grew up.
And I just checked with my husband who grew up in Hot Springs, Ark and
Erwin, Tenn. He doesn't remember where he first learned the "practice"
but was aware of it at an early age.

I would hazard the guess that perhaps it is more related to _when_ than
where we grew up - but our students still do it, so that's out.
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