Gothic Nursery Rymes.

[Homicidalheathen]

So I was talking with someone yesturday.....

I always thought a few of them were rather morbid at least.

We had a book of them when I was a kid.....and it was old. Pages yellowed....

Some of the rhymes were scary.....and it had pictures with wolves having bloody teeth....

So he mentioned one that was suppose to get kids to stop sucking their thumbs.

It had a boogie man type guy that would cut off your fingers if you sucked them and a picture of a bloody finger laying on the ground.

Anyone ever hear of this? I think it was a German nursery rhyme.

I just don't understand reading this stuff to kids before bed......it makes ya have nightmares.

[Homicidalheathen]

http://lydiawick.tripod.com/id2.html

Here are some goth nursery rhymes but I still want to find the thumb sucking one....I never heard of it.

I guess its german and was printed in german.

But I found this:

Kinderreime - Nursery Rhymes

“Hoppe hoppe Reiter” and other rhymes

Nursery Rhymes in German and English

Very few kids growing up in German-speaking Europe have missed being bounced on their parents' knees to the rhyming words of “Hoppe hoppe Reiter.”

This classic Kinderreim is one of the most popular among the many German nursery rhymes, which may only partly explain why the German metal band Rammstein used the “Hoppe hoppe Reiter” refrain in their song “Spieluhr” (music box).

Mother Goose in German

But if you really examine the words to “Hoppe hoppe Reiter,” they are almost as dark as a Rammstein song. But then most of Mother Goose is also on the violent and dark side, as are most fairy tales. There is a similar Mother Goose rhyme called "The Farmer and the Raven," the first verse of which goes:

A farmer went trotting

Upon his gray mare;

Bumpety, bumpety, bump!

With his daughter behind him,

So rosy and fair;

Lumpety, lumpety, lump!

A raven cried "Croak!"

And they all tumbled down...

(For the gruesome completion of this rhyme and more English "bounce" rhymes see: Mother Goose)

[Scary Guy]

"Ring around the rosie" was always a classic. Oh but look at this I'm going to ruin it for you all, sorry http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm