The Litany of Saint Fidgeta is a prayer that evokes Saint Fidgeta and is to be chanted by children (Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies; 25). The prayer mentions Isaac Jogues and is a sort of grab-bag of distractions (both physical and mental) that could prompt uneasiness in a young church-goer to the point of fidgeting.
Printing error[]
The first printing of Saint Fidgeta and Other Parodies contains the following typographical error:
From the fear that also during the night the
can see our noses and that it will
make us crossed-eyed . . .
From the unaccountable feeling that we
Communists will crawl over the window
sill and take over and will we have
the strength to die for our Faith . . .
Though the litany reads correct in The Critic, apparently the first lines of each verse were switched in the book’s first printing (no doubt caused by a nervous and therefore jittery type-setting machine). The error was caught and corrected for the second printing.
1. The True History of St. Fidgeta, Virgin and Martyr | |
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Fidgeta Order of Faithful Fidgettines |