

I laughed - but only in my mind - because when I was in elementary school, kids chanted, “If you step on a crack, you break your mother’s back. Unless, that is, while you’re taking your 4-year-old granddaughter for a walk, she says to you, “Gwanma, do you know if you step on a cwack, you get dead?” Does folklore still matter? Is there an oral culture? In the era of social media allowing instant conversations across the world, the question might seem absurd.
