7 Nursery Rhymes that are way too dark for children
Being buried alive, the plague, prostitution and debauchery – these are things you definitely dont want your kids to be talking about.
But thats exactly what a surprising number of nursery rhymes are about! If you think about it, there are some rhymes with overt undertones of violence – like Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat Where Have You Been? (In which Little Tommy Thin tortures a cat by putting it in a well) and Rock-a-bye Baby (in which the Baby ultimately falls from the tree, 'cradle and all').
But that's not what we're talking about. Some of these rhymes go a little deeper than that.
Hidden behind seemingly innocent metaphors are themes of adultery, illness, dismemberment and a whole lot of rated-R stuff that would appall any parent! So here's our pick of the 10 most messed up ones:. London Bridge Is Falling Down.
London Bridge is falling down,. Falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down,.
Out of the many disturbing theories behind this rhyme – including Viking invasions and The Great Fire of London – the one that stands out the most involves child sacrifice.
There was a belief in medieval England that a bridge would collapse unless a human sacrifice, usually a child was buried into the foundation of it! The apocryphal tale claims that children were buried, often alive into the foundation of the bridge.
Children performing the rhyme. This practice is called Immurement, basically the burial of people, often alive, into the shafts and pillars of structures! Children often play a game while singing the rhyme (as depicted in the picture above).
They take turns passing through a makeshift trap that two other kids make with their hands. The last one to be stuck when the rhyme ends is trapped! What a merry game!.
A painting depicts the immurement of a nun. Ring Around The Rosie.
Ring around the rosie. A pocketful of posies. We all fall down!. The origin for this rhyme is by far the most infamous among all rhymes.
Though its lyrics and even its title have gone through some changes over the years, the most popular contention is that the sing-songy verse refers to the 1665 Great Plague of London.
The "rosie" from the rhyme is the rash that covered the ones who contracted the disease, the smell of which they tried to cover up with "a pocket full of posies.
The "ashes" were the cremated remains of the deceased and they all did fall down into a massive epidemic!.
An artists depiction of the Plagues.
But the story has been challenged by some. Folklorist Philip Hiscock suggests that the origins have something to do with the ban on dancing among many Protestants in the nineteenth century, both in Britain as well as America.
The adults adapted square dancing to something called a 'play party', a set of ring games that serves as a substitute to dancing. And children were quick to pick up on the trend.
Caption. Jack and Jill went up the hill,. To fetch a pail of water.
And broke his crown;. And Jill came tumbling after. The story goes like this. Jack and Jill are actually references to France's King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, who were convicted of treason during the French Revolution.
They were both publicly beheaded at the end of the revolution, marking the end of the Reign of Terror in France. So Jack "breaking his crown" suddenly makes more sense. And in a sense, Jill did come "tumbling after".
A Van Dycke portrait of King Charles I, who is Jack in the rhyme.
Another theory claims that the rhyme was written after the beheadings of the French monarchs and was actually an account of King Charles I's attempt to reform the tax on liquid measures.
When Parliament rejected his suggestion, he instead made sure that the volume was reduced on half- and quarter-pints, known as jacks and gills, respectively.
Either way, whether it's beheadings or tax reforms on liquid measures, surely there are more pleasant things for children to be singing about in school. Mary Mary Quite Contrary.
Mary, Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow?. With silver bells and cockleshells. And pretty maids all in a row.
"Contrary" is really a midway to describe a murderous psychopath, but then again it's a children's rhyme! This popular English nursery rhyme, which sounds like a song about gardening advice, is actually a recounting of the homicidal nature of Queen Mary I of England.
Her nickname? 'Bloody Mary'!.
Queen Mary I on England was nicknamed Bloody Mary for the execution of hundreds of Protestants. A fierce believer in Catholicism, her reign as queen was marked by the execution of hundreds of Protestants.
Get this: The silver bells and cockle shells in the rhyme? They actually refer to torture instruments used in her time and the "pretty maids all in a row"? It refers to the hundreds of women burnt at the stake for the crime of being Protestant.
Paints a pretty picture doesn't it?.
Hundreds of Protestants were burnt at the stake during the reign of Bloody Mary (Image Source: Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Whither dost thou wander?.
And in my ladys chamber. There I met an old man. Who wouldnt say his prayers;. I took him by the left leg,.
And threw him down the stairs.
Image Source: Project Gutenberg.
What song that starts with the words goosey goosey can possibly be used to describe anything but the cutest of things? This one! The rhyme is actually a tale of religious persecution, during the days when England turned Protestant and the Catholic priests refused to change their old ways.
The gander is a reference to the Catholic priests would hide themselves in order to say their Latin-based prayers, a major taboo at the time. .
A priest hole was used as a hiding place by persecuted Catholic priests in England in the 16th Century.
The last line involving throwing an old man down a flight of stairs is bad enough, but in the context of the religious persecution, suddenly makes it much worse. This is certainly no way to teach children about geriatrics or religion!.
Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush. Here we go round the mulberry bush,. Here we go round the mulberry bush. So early in the morning.
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