“The Silver Shoes," said the Good Witch, "have wonderful powers. And one of the most curious things about them is that they can carry you to any place in the world in three steps, and each step will be made in the wink of an eye. All you have to do is to knock the heels together three times and command the shoes to carry you wherever you wish to go.”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
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Reported in Eva Shaw, For the Love of Children (1998), p. 133.
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Variant: You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.
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Interview on WCIU (4 May 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns735UPlxKM/.

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