“Jack and Jill”, which used to seem like an innocent frolic, is actually about France’s Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. In 1793, they were guillotined. These dark origins seem to be so for other ...

And people still use that version to this day. Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson recently got in trouble for using it while taping his internationally syndicated show. How comfortable with using the ...

LONDON, March 2 (UPI) -- A British historian claims traditional British nursery rhymes contain adult-themes and sexual references in his new book about the verses' origins. Chris Roberts, a social ...

Kathryn Thomas took a minute out from her guest-hosting duties on The Ray D’Arcy Show to tell listeners about how her eyes have been opened when it comes to the dark world of nursery rhymes. She told ...

Sing a Song of Sixpence is endlessly reinterpreted. One popular explanation makes it a rhyme about the Dissolution of the ...

Kathryn Thomas took a minute out from her regular duties on The Ray D'Arcy Show to tell listeners about how her eyes have been opened when it comes to the dark world of nursery rhymes. She told ...

For generations, the cautionary tales of the grown-up world wrapped up in nursery rhymes have been a normal part of childhood. Children have somehow managed to cope with a world where mice are blind, ...