In Scotland and the North of England, wadd was a term used by children for a penalty paid upon losing a game. This appears in many, many games, and I su.
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The nursery rhyme âLondon Bridge Is Falling Downâ is secretly about the spirits of the dead. The centuries-old childrenâs tune doubles as a macabre tale of children being walled inside the London Bridge, or buried under its foundation, to ensure that the structure never crumbles. At least thatâs the theory advanced by Alice Bertha Gomme, a noted British folklorist and scholar of childrenâs games. Like the fables of the Brothers Grimm, whose bloody tales were sanitized for bedtime retelling, many nursery rhymes have equally disturbing origins. On
NINE, the elusive British group SAULT channel childhood rhymesânot just their repetitive, earwormy melodies but also their ominous undertonesâinto songs with a deceptively simple air that are laden with grief.