Which nursery rhyme character cut off the tails of the three blind mice?
Correct answer: The Farmer's Wife
Fandazz1
A few years ago, it occurred to me that many old nursery rhymes are creepy or somewhat brutal. Lol!
Montana Lady
Fandazz1, most of them are about terrible things that actually happened, torture, the Black Plague, etc.
grandmax49456
Pete Renquest, Its ki d of a creepy song when you think about it. haha
GrandmaTanya
Fandazz1, how about Ring around the rosie? That was about the black plague, I believe
Rachel.A
Fandazz1, I also realized that nursery rhymes are creepy and have a strange meaning. Like; it is raining it's pouring the man in the moon is snoring he went to bed and bumped his head and didn't wake up the next morning. Kids don't realize that he died. # wake up call
Player #2123781
Rachel.A, you are so right. A lot of these rhymes are warnings. The story of red riding hood, scary, it made me think twice about talking to any stranger.
Heartland Old Guy
Montana Lady, yeah, when the bough breaks the baby will fall... that's what we grew up with.
Player #3874355
I like the fact that nursery rhymes are slightly dark. Kids don't need to be so sugar coated. I remember films like Labyrinth, dark crystal, little mermaid that I thought were pretty scary at the time but I still enjoyed them
RushMama2112
I just read about an organist at a AA ballpark in Florida who was ejected by the umps for playing "Three Blind Mice." Thin-skinned bunch, aren't they? :D
JDog
Fandazz1, was thinking the same thing. all nursery rhymes are based on weird or sick events
Byrde Alpha Bitch
ThandQ, They, (nursery rhymes & fairy tales & children's stories), were meant to teach children about the real world & things that happened. They were never meant to be a sweet sugar coated candy versions that some have become.
Byrde Alpha Bitch
Max, We learned later on the verse of "he couldn't get it up in the morning" lol
Byrde Alpha Bitch
Fandazz1, As are most of the original versions of "fairy tales" & older children's stories in general.
Johnny
Montana Lady, I know right like a ring a roses a death symptom of a plague forget quite which one
DrShiitz
Most nursery rhymes are based on facts about things that happened
Wires96
Rachel.A, I don’t remember the man being on the moon. I just remember him snoring
Lucie Freya
Fandazz1, somewhat?
El Paz
the three assassins from Doctor No, the first James Bond movie.
Cheese
Rachel.A, the man IN the moon? How do you get in a moon? They are not the words !!!
Bedlingtons
they all seem to date back to the middle ages like ring a ring of posies reffering to the plague and 3 blind mice etc . All fairly grim but important we keep these to read to our children.
Player #26167504
GrandmaTanya, most think this but there are records of this rhyme being shared before the black death arrived.
Liverpool
Easy but creepy
Dio101
GrandmaTanya, definitely, have you read the kiss off death by Malcolm Rose? It’s very interesting and sort of gory.
wendy1945poole
the things u find out are great I have never heard this before
Sarah Jane
Fandazz1, also fairy tales!
Max
Rachel.A, we say it different to that...it's raining it's pouring the old man is snoring, he went to bed and bumped his head and couldn't get up in the morning....a little less sadistic I guess! but probs in a coma now lol
Sonicgirl
GrandmaTanya, It's the black death .
DEBRA MINĎFUL2256
NoiselessAnxiety2, ring around the roses,POCKETS FULL OF POSIES, was done during the plague they put flowers on the dead to. help get rid of the smell. I'm sure of that..
DETTE
yeah who the hell is gonna put a baby on a bough anyway that's crazy
Chevrolet
I can't believe they tell their kids these things with terrifying messages and meanings omg
Broomflier888
Creepy if you ask me!
Jan
Rachel.A, he went to bed and bumped his head and couldn’t get up in the morning not wake up which to me doesn’t imply he was dead.
NoiselessAnxiety2
Player #5259313, that is the Americanized version of the Original. it's ring of roses = circular rash of the plague, Attisho, Attisho, was the sneezing symptom, the pocket full of posies were carried as people thought posies would ward of the plague then we all fall down everyone dying.
BoldParakeet740
Player #5259313, it isn't "ashes, ashes", it's "atishoo, atishoo". the sneeze being the first symptom of the disease.
Player #3417087
is this nursery rhyme meant to terrify children?
Player #4119596 Viv
Used to sing it in kindergarten!!?
Mama Crow
Allegories. They are allegories.