Creepy origins behind nursery rhymes
Let’s Talk About The Terrifying Stories Behind Nursery Rhymes
They are dark and disturbing.
Parents probably don’t even consider the origins of nursery rhymes when singing them to their babies, toddlers, or young children. Additionally, preschool and kindergarten teachers sing nursery rhymes to their young students. Probably your parents and teachers sang them to you as a child!
Would you still be singing nursery rhymes if you knew how dark the origins of these so-called innocent rhymes are if you were a parent and teacher? Rather than asking that question, let’s rephrase it.
Would you sing to your children songs about being burned at stake, rotting corpses, the plague, or prostitution? Let’s hope not! Nursery rhyme origins are all incredibly morbid, but that’s the truth!
Let’s talk about how morbid and twisted they are! But, first, we will examine the top ten nursery rhymes in the same way we would examine an autopsy- by closely looking at each song and discussing it in depth.
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell,
