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being lost, being stolen, being bitten · Jan 29, 06:40

Brian Sutton-Smith, The Ambiguity of Play p.160-161

The typical actions in orally told stories by young children include beting lost, being stolen, being bitten, dying, being stepped on, being angry, calling the police, running away, or falling down.

. . .

Told by a four-year-old boy:

Once there was a dragon who went poo poo on a house and the house broke
then when the house broke the people died
and when the people died their bones came out and broke and got together again and turned into a skeleton
and then the skeletons came along and scared the people out of the town
and then when all the people got scared out of the town then
skeleton babies were born
and then everyone called it skeleton town
and when they called it skeleton town the people came back and then they got scared away again
and then when they all got scared away again the skeletons died no one came to the town
so there was no people in that town ever again.