What's the meaning of Peter Pumpkin Eater or Baa Baa Black Sheep? Here are the bizarre hidden meanings of 15 nursery rhymes you remember from childhood.

Origins and Meaning. The earliest printing of the English nursery rhyme comes to us from about 1744 and since then the words of “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” have not changed dramatically at all.

Yes, that fictional grande dame of kiddie poems has got a bit of a dark streak, as evidenced by the unexpectedly sinister theories surrounding the origins of these 11 well-known nursery rhymes. 1 ...

Few people realize to what this seemingly happy little nursery rhyme actually refers. This nursery rhyme began about 1347 and derives from the not-so-delightful Black Plague, which killed over ...

"Pact has established that children sing a variety of descriptive words in the nursery rhyme to turn the song into an action rhyme," the charity said in a statement. "They sing happy, sad, bouncing, ...

1. Baa, Baa, Black Sheep // 1731. Though most scholars agree that “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” is about the Great Custom, a tax on wool that was introduced in 1275, its use of the color black and ...