http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/ "A spell is a story we tell ourselves that shapes our emotional and psychic world. Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:04:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1867 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:50:32 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1867 What a joy to see this is print! My grandmother, born 1894, recited this to me when I was a little girl and I never saw it written anywhere until now. Thank you so much for posting it.

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1843 Thu, 24 May 2012 20:42:25 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1843 Isn’t it interesting that still, even as adults, we intuitively react to what our Selves know to be true?

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1670 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:26:40 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1670 Dido!!!

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1180 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:40:58 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1180 My father was from Galveston, Texas, and used to read me things (eg Tom Sawywr, Huckleberry Finnn, The Just So Stories) with an accent that was both wonderfully deep south and foreign, speaking as he generally did with a completely unaccented General American Dialect that I use to this day. On a dark stormy night like tonight he read me this tale from our encyclopedia, The Book of Knowledge. It came back to me, half-asleep tonight and I found you blog. I printed it printed, posted it in my den and will read it to my children (now all grown) at Halloween. These are the memories that make up our childhood.

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1163 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:14:35 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1163 This poem was read to me when I was in the 5th grade (1971). I could not remember the poem. I could only remember, “and the gobblins will get you if you don’t watch out”. Mrs. Crandle was my 5th grade teacher read this poem to our class. I have always loved it, but could never remember it. So I wasn’t able to share it with my children. Just this past weekend I was watching the Waltons television show and the character John boy was reading this poem to his younger siblings. I wasn’t paying attention, but I heard, “and the gobblins will get you if you don’t watch out!”. It brought back so so many great memories of those years with my favorite elementary teacher Mrs. Crandle. I am so glad that I have been able to find this wonderfully charming Halloween poem that maybe one day ( many years from now) be able to recite to my grandchrildren. Thanks for posting it!

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1154 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:34:00 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1154 I have been searching for this poem for years and years! My grandmother used to tell it to us every night (because we asked for it), but it really scared me. I only remembered “once there was a little boy, who wouldn’t say his prayers; and when he went to bed at night away up stairs; his mammy heared him holler and his daddy heared him call, and when they turned the kivers back, he wasn’t there at all……….etc., and the Goblins will get you if you don’t watch out. I’m 66 years old now and can’t wait to tell one of my brothers that I found it! Thanks so much.

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1035 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:58:23 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-1035 My mom used to repeat this to me on my grandma’s farm back in the hills of WV. It scared me to death. I was thrilled to find it here.

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-908 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 01:18:08 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-908 Thank you so much for posting this!! My husband had searched for this cause his grandmother used to read it to him when he was small. I was thrilled to find it!!

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-850 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:32:57 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-850 I was looking for another favorite poem of my youth, and found it, when I remembered about my Mom reciting this poem to me back in the 60′s. I was going to use the Owl Critic for my college paper, but I think this one will be better. Thank you posting!

]]> http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-784 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:23:26 +0000 http://thecronesdailygroan.wordpress.com/2007/11/02/the-goblins-will-get-ya/#comment-784 My mother recently died (95 years old )and I have been seeking on the web,the three poems that she always recited to my sister and I when we were children. This ‘The Little orphan Annie’ being one of them. Thanks for putting it on your website. The other two I also found which may be of interest to you. Aunt Matilda’s Children, from The Littlest one by Marion St, John Webb. ‘The Squeaky shoes’ and ‘The Discontented Buttercup’ by Sarah Orne Jewetts, Discontent, they are great

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