Sinister Nursery Rhymes
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Sinister Nursery Rhymes
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“Mary, Mary quite contrary, How does your garden grow ? With silver bells and cockle shells And pretty maids...
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Sinister Nursery Rhymes
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“Ring A Ring of Roses A pocket full of posies A-tish-oo, a-tish-oo We all fall down” This rhyme...
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Jumping The Broom Or Besom
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The earliest mention of this custom appears to come from the Celts in the early eighteenth century. It seems...
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Mistletoe
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Mistletoe traditions, in Scotland, come from two very different sources. When the Romans settled in Britain, they despised and dreaded the Druids. It...
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Sinister Nursery Rhymes
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“Old Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone; When she got there The...
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Kelty Coal Race
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Towards the end of the 1800’s coal miners in Kelty, Fife, Scotland, would run home with lumps of coal, ‘rakers’ & ‘clugs’, at the end...
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Moot / Boot Hill Or Omnis Terra
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Boot Hill has two distinctive opposite meanings, depending on which side of the Atlantic Ocean you live. Boot Hill...
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Sinister Nursery Rhymes
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” Baa Baa black sheep, have you any wool ? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full ! One...
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