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The name ladybird contains a reference to Mary, mother of Jesus, often referred to as Our Lady, a convention that occurs in other European cultures where the insect is similarly addressed. In Germany it is the Marienkäfer, where a nursery rhyme runs “Marybug, fly away, your house is on fire, your wee mother weeps” (Marienkäferchen, fliege ...
Mrs. Tittlemouse sends the uninvited ladybird off with a variant of the traditional nursery rhyme Ladybird Ladybird: "Your house is on fire, Mother Ladybird! Fly away home to your children!". She then runs into a spider who asks her: "Beg pardon, is this not Miss Muffet's?", a reference to the nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet.
Coccinellids have been popularly featured in poems and nursery rhymes, the most ... including: [93] Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Thy house is on fire, thy ...
Ladybird, Ladybird; Lavender's Blue; Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up; The Lion and the Unicorn; Little Bo-Peep; Little Boy Blue; Little Bunny Foo Foo; Little Jack Horner; Little Miss Muffet; Little Poll Parrot; Little Robin Redbreast; Lloyd George Knew My Father (song) London Bridge Is Falling Down; Lucy Locket
The couple moved from London to rural England. Their interest in children's lore has been credited to the Opies recalling whilst out on a countryside walk, the ‘Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home’ rhyme from their youth. They began researching into the origins of the rhyme, and as their interest grew they began to collect nursery rhyme books ...
This rhyme was first recorded in A. E. Bray's Traditions of Devonshire (Volume II, pp. 287–288). Needles and Pins: United Kingdom 1842 [69] First recorded in the proverbs section of James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England. Old King Cole: Great Britain 1709 [70]
Ladybird, Ladybird; Land of the Silver Birch; Lavender's Blue; Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up; Little Arabella Miller; Little Bo-Peep; Little Boy Blue; Little Jack Horner; Little Miss Muffet; Little Poll Parrot; Little Robin Redbreast; Little Tommy Tucker; London Bridge Is Falling Down; Lucy Locket
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.