Comments on: 10 Popular Nursery Rhymes That are Incredibly Depressing, Terrifyingly Violent and Disturbingly Tragic for Children

By: Romeo.S

Romeo.S — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:59:06 +0000

Brainwashing at it’s finest. Way to go America. I hope American’s understand why there kids are as such. They think they naturally evolved into wild careless mindless crying wining wanting killing People.
Since day one the brainwashing starts, even in cartoons.
“if you pay me, I still wouldn’t live there, till death”.

By: ELISE

ELISE — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:31:45 +0000

My reading teacher taught me about some of these violent rhymes and I wanted to know more of them… So thank you… you made my life much easier… I don’t have to wander about this anymore!!

By: E.P. Dowdall

E.P. Dowdall — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:35:51 +0000

Yes, always thought that lullabye needed a little more explanation. How about this for a simple second verse solution…

Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top
If a storm comes the cradle may drop
Don’t be afraid of all the world’s harms
I’ll be there to catch you, safe in my arms

E.P. Dowdall

By: Gothikid

Gothikid — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:05:04 +0000

I love to make alternate stories about nursery rhymes! I, too, find them disturbing. Thanks for sharing your list!

By: thomas { tom ass }

thomas { tom ass } — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:20:27 +0000

i loved gosey gosey gander its epicly distubing

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:29:12 +0000

The little old lady who lived in a shoe
The earliest printed version, published in Infant Institutes in 1797, finished with the lines:
“Then out went th’ old woman to bespeak ‘em a coffin,
And when she came back, she found ‘em all a-loffeing.”
The term “a-loffeing”, they believed, was Shakespearean, suggesting that the rhyme is considerably older than the first printed versions. They then speculated that if this were true it might have a folk lore meaning and pointed to the connection between shoes and marriage, symbolised by casting a shoe when a bride leaves for her honeymoon.
Debates over the meaning of the rhyme largely revolve around matching the old woman with historical figures. Candidates include:
Queen Caroline, the wife of King George II, who had eight children.
Elizabeth Vergoose of Boston, who had six of her own children and ten stepchildren.
There is no evidence to identify either of these candidates with the unnamed subject of the rhyme.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:03:14 +0000

Humpty Dumpty
The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg because it probably was originally posed as a riddle. The earliest known version is in a manuscript addition to a copy of Mother Goose’s Melody published in 1803, which has the modern version with a different last line: “Could not set Humpty Dumpty up again”. It was first published in 1811 in a version of Gammer Gurton’s Garland as:
“Humpty Dumpty sate [sic] on a wall,
Humpti Dumpti [sic] had a great fall;
Threescore men and threescore more,
Cannot place Humpty dumpty as he was before.”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term “humpty dumpty” referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that “humpty dumpty” was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person. The riddle may depend on the assumption that, whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall might not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known.

By: jeremy

jeremy — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:05:11 +0000

just saying there are actual meanings behind them and all your views on this are very stupid. ladybird ladybird was about a way for farmers to kill locust by buring thier crops. jack and jill is about the moon cycle. do more reserch before you post.

By: Gibson

Gibson — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 22:16:36 +0000

Have You Heard The One “Ring Around The Posie” And How Sad It Is? I Recommend Not Telling Your Little Baby Or Child This One, There Was A Disease In Europe And Basically It Could Kill Them, And They Believed Posies (A Flower) Would Keep The Disease Away. So They All Held Hands Fighting The Disease But They Died, All Fell Down.

By: vxscop

vxscop — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:57:12 +0000

What about ten little indians. the agatha christe novel “and then there were none” was based on this morbid nursey rhyme