Nursery Rhymes and Fables

[dunnrite]

Very true.  I used to push the kids out of the bed when I sang "the cradle will fall".  really got their attention 

[Meatwad]

ring around the rosey,a pocket full of poseys...


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The Plague

[morfiend]

The Plague

 correct,alot of the old nursery rhymes were about gruesome events or things... How hungry would you have to be to eat 4 and twenty balckbirds?




   

[Devil 505]

How hungry would you have to be to eat 4 and twenty balckbirds?

Do they taste like chicken?

[PJ_Godzilla]

ring around the rosey,a pocket full of poseys...


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It's about the bubonic plague, my friend in morbidity.

That's the rosey and the ring. At the end, all fall down.

Who, then, was Humpty Dumpty?

[Meatwad]

I actually remember being taught that in world history class back in the 90's. Out of the whole semester just that little 30 second sidenote from the teacher is as clear as a bell.

Funny how little things like that stick.

[allaire]

You want to see dark stories.  Read the original Grimm's Fairy Tales.  I've only seen bits and pieces but wow.

[morfiend]

It's about the bubonic plague, my friend in morbidity.

That's the rosey and the ring. At the end, all fall down.

Who, then, was Humpty Dumpty?

  Humpty was looking after the craddle,baby and all!

  yes that rhyme,rosey is something it includes the sounds of the death,wheezing breath and the posey's were carried as a "nosegay" to cover the stench...

    morbid indeed!


   


 PS: yet we continue today to tell our children these tales......