Aniki-Bóbó is akin to a children's counting rhyme that has existed in various forms since well before when?
Aniki-Bóbó Aniki-Bóbó is a 1942 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira. It is his first feature-length film. The actors are mostly children from Oliveira's hometown, Porto. The script was adapted by Manoel de Oliveira from a short story by José Rodrigues de Freitas, "Meninos Milionários" (lit. "Millionaire Children"). "Aniki-Bóbó" is a rhyme from a children's game, akin to Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
Australian Aboriginal enumeration The Australian Aboriginal counting system was used to send messages on message sticks to neighbouring clans to alert them of, or invite them to, corroborees, set-fights, and ball games. Numbers could clarify the day the meeting was to be held (in a number of "moons") and where (the number of camps' distance away). The messenger would have a message "in his mouth" to go along with the message stick.