. Discovery. Science. 326 DISCOVERY honour a song, which is sung to this day (our informant Pausanias is writing in the second century after Christ): " To the midst of the Stenyclerian plain and to the top of the mountain Aristomenes followed the ; 7/ and the song We are reminded of i Samuel xviii. may have been a popular ballad, but again I suspect a singing game. Historical events often leave their traces in nursery song. A Shropshire woman in the nineteenth century was heard to hush her baby with : Ring-a-ding, I heard a bird sing The Parliament soldiers are gone fo
. Discovery. Science. 326 DISCOVERY honour a song, which is sung to this day (our informant Pausanias is writing in the second century after Christ): " To the midst of the Stenyclerian plain and to the top of the mountain Aristomenes followed the ; 7/ and the song We are reminded of i Samuel xviii. may have been a popular ballad, but again I suspect a singing game. Historical events often leave their traces in nursery song. A Shropshire woman in the nineteenth century was heard to hush her baby with : Ring-a-ding, I heard a bird sing The Parliament soldiers are gone for the king "— which is a clear reference to General Monk's mission in 1660. Where our children sing, " Rain, rain, go to Spain, Fine weather, come again," the Greek children of witch who affected the shape of a screech owl and was peculiarly addicted to sucking the blood of small children. At weddings a song was sung about crows. There is, unfortunately, considerable doubt about the text. The reading, " Boy, drive away the crow," ^ has been interpreted by the theory that the crow symbolises widowhood. But the crow was a bird of ill luck, and naturally its appearance at weddings would not be welcomed. I suspect that the song was merely the equivalent of the English — " Crow, crow, get out of my sight. Or else I'll eat your liver and light " ; or the French— Corbeau, corbeau sauv-e toi Voila le petit-fils du roi. Qui te coupera al p'tit doigt ! Vinn vinaigre ! " V4. THE UK SPRING. Aristophanes' day clapped their hands " Come out, dear ; With — and sang. " Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home. Your house is on fire, your children all gone "— may be compared, " Fly, beetles ; a savage wolf is after ; Greek children had also a song to " send away the strix, the crier by night, from the land, the nameless bird, upon the swift ; The strix was a vampire- ' " And the women
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