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18 Dark And Disturbing Lullabies From Around The World. Turns out, scaring children to sleep is a global phenomenon. By Caroline Bologna. May 16, 2018, 04:35 PM EDT. LEAVE A COMMENT. Emma Kim via Getty Images. Lullaby melodies often sound sweet, but the lyrics can tell a very grim tale.
- "Nana nenê" // Brazil
- "Duérmete Niño" // Spanish
- "Bayu Bayushki Bayu" // Russia
- "Ninna Nanna" // Italy
- "Lelo Ledung" // Javanese
- And 8. "Bíum, Bíum, Bambaló" and "Sofðu Nú Svínið Þitt" // Iceland
- "Highland Fairy Lullaby" // Scotland
- "Lima Anak Ayam" // Malaysia
- "Kråkevisa" // Norway
- "Incili Bebek Ninnisi" // Turkey
This Brazilian lullaby invokes Cuca (a crocodile-hag from legends), the idea of parents not being there to protect you, an ox-monster, and a bogeyman called Bicho Papão lurking on the roof. All the stuff that puts a child right at ease. Listen here.
This lullaby is sung in Spain and Latin American in various versions. It warns that if you don’t go to sleep, a shapeshifting monster called the Coco will eat you up. In some countries the Coco is substituted with el Lobo (the wolf), which doesn’t make it any less scary. Listen here.
In Russia, it’s a wolf that’s going to get you off the edge of your bed and drag you off into the woods. Listen here. More Articles About Nursery Rhymes:
In Italy, the old hag, the bogeyman, and the white wolf will get you, but not because they’ll drag you off. No, your mother’s going to just giveyou to them. Listen here.
On the Indonesian island of Java there is a scary giant looking for crying children. Also, crying will make you ugly. Translation from mamalisa.com; listen here.
Iceland has perhaps the scariest creature of all. The one that you don’t even know what it is. All you know is that it’s lurking, lurking… Listen to the Sigur Rós version with lyrics and translation here. There's also this Icelandic classic, which I haven’t been able to find the melody for: Which translates to
In Scotland there are no scary creatures to carry you off. Your mother’s just going to put you down and lose you. Listen here.
In this medley of lullabies by Malaysian singer Zee Avi, the third one, starting at 1:10, goes straight to baby chicks dying.
This Norwegian lullaby ballad isn’t directly about a sleeping child and what will happen to them, but about a man who thinks a crow is going to kill him, so he kills it first. A gory catalog of all the uses he makes out of the carcass follows. The lesson of the song is finally summed up in the moral, “A person who cannot make use of a crow like thi...
This Turkish lullaby comes from a story where a man who wished for a child promised that he would sacrifice three camels if he had a child, but on the way to the sacrifice decided to keep the camels instead. This, from the perspective of the singing mother, is what happened next. Full lullaby text and story here. Sweet dreams!
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- 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' Going around the mulberry bush on a frosty morning sounds pretty calm and innocent, but there’s more to the story than it seems.
- 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep” isn’t the happiest of lullabies, but for some reason it’s been around forever. Apparently, there’s no real consensus over what it means, but there are a few theories.
- 'Humpty Dumpty' We all know that Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall and somehow lost his balance and had a great fall. It’s one of the first nursery rhymes we learn, and it seems to date back to 1797.
- 'This Old Man' “This Old Man” is one of those strange rhymes that has lyrics but also works when we make up our own words. It can be a giggle-fest when kids are old enough to come up with their own lines.
Yet that doesn’t explain why the lyrics to these lullabies can often be as creepy as any Brothers Grimm tale. With this in mind, we’ve collected some of the strangest and most unsettling lullabies from around the world and created fittingly creepy posters for each one.
Feb 28, 2018 · The traditional lullaby has stood the test of time as a way of relaxing at bed time, but are we scaring children to sleep? Remove the soothing, melodic tones from lullabies and we are left with some seriously creepy lyrics…
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