What are the origins of ‘Jack & Jill’? ‘Jack and Jill’ is an English nursery rhyme from the 18th century. It was thought to have been first published in Londonaround 1765, although some of the archaic language and rhymes – namely rhyming ‘water’ with ‘after’ – suggest it ...
On the night of Samhain, it was believed spirits of the restless dead and mischievous spirits would freely roam about with humans and during this one night spirits were able to make contact with the physical world as their magic was at its height. The Celts believed that by allowing the dea...
Nursery rhyme, verse customarily told or sung to small children. The oral tradition of nursery rhymes is ancient, but new verses have steadily entered the stream. A French poem numbering the days of the month, similar to “Thirty days hath September,” w