ID: 358
Date: 1990s - 2006
Title: Personal Jinx
Gender: Female 
Classification: Fun 
Rhyme: 

Personal jinx 

(NZ ex Australia, 1990s; Christchurch, 2000)
(Said when 2 people say the same thing at the same time, no one can speak then until the other person says their name.)

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Jinx, 1,2,3,
Talk again,
You're dead.

(Auckland, 2006)

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Background Info: Bauer, 2002,Sect.19:1-2, records terms used when two people say the same thing at the same time; jinx, personal jinx, master jinx, private jinx, jinx padlock and many other terms. 
Personal jinx means that only the jinxer can clear the jinx, whereas with jinx, anyone can.

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See also "Play and Folklore", Issue 27, 1994:9,  for further details regarding jinx rituals.

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Keywords: half belief 
Location: Various NZ, Australia 
Group size: 2 
Incidence: 3