What is your favorite bit of childlore?

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What is your favorite bit of childlore? - Lemmy.World

Childlore is folklore passed directly between children, without the input of adults. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childlore] Stuff I can think of off the top of my head are paper fortune tellers, summoning Bloody Mary/the candyman, the cool S, parody songs like “Jingle bells Batman Smells” and “Joy to the world, the teacher’s dead” etc. This stuff has intrigued me since, well since I was a kid. I always wondered where they came from. I never saw adults doing that stuff, so I figured another kid had to have come up with it.

Not necessarily my favorite nor something widespread, but it was always the legend that my middle/high schools had a pool on the roof (it was a one story building lmfao)
I remember kids would try to sell each other a pass to get to the second floor of one of our one-story buildings; I wonder if the pool rumor started as a similar joke/scam