Some of you may be aware that many nursery rhymes and fables began life in response to a creepy, deadly, or otherwise terrible thing or act. Sometimes they were written by bards in the middle ages after missing a train or a witch burning.
For example, did you know that the kiddie song 'Five Little Ducks' was written after the mass duck suicide of 1612?
The original final verse went...
Old mother duck went to the gap,
Stepped to the edge and flap, flap, flap,
Fell down onto rocks with a splat,
'And that,' said the coroner, 'that is that.'
So be careful when you sing about things and stuff to children and stuff! You may be wrecking their minds. FOR GOOD!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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