Following on from the thread regarding the somewhat disturbing, ‘There was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly.’ - Good folks, are there any poems and Nursery Rhymes that scared you as a child?
I’ll put forward, the utterly sinister, ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ here which scared the absolute hell out of me!  |
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Humpty Dumpty always used to distress me as a child to.
The fact that he was irreparably damaged upset me no end.
…I then dipped my soldier into my soft boiled egg and completely forgot about Humpty’s suffering.
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The seemingly innocuous lyrics describe some of the typified physical symptoms of bubonic plague 
