Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception by K Brandon Barker, Claiborne Rice

Folk Illusions: Children, Folklore, and Sciences of Perception

K Brandon Barker, Claiborne Rice

264 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell- these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities. In...

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