Krissy cracks open a beer and immediately starts asking the important questions: who looked at plague, famine, child abandonment, executions, cannibalism, babies falling out of trees, and literal murder forests and said, "Yep. Let's teach this to children." Because apparently that's exactly what humanity did. This week on Brews With Boo's, we're diving headfirst into the dark, weird, and completely unhinged origins of nursery rhymes, lullabies, and fairy tales. We're talking Ring Around the Rosie, London Bridge, Rock-a-Bye Baby, Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, and a whole bunch of songs that somehow made it into childhood despite sounding suspiciously like medieval OSHA violations. Then we crack open the Long Pour and head straight into the world of the Brothers Grimm, where Cinderella's stepsisters are cutting off body parts, Snow White's wedding reception turns into a torture chamber, Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten, Hansel and Gretel get clickbaited by a cannibal witch, and The Juniper Tree somehow manages to combine murder, cannibalism, bird revenge, and resurrection into what was apparently considered family entertainment. Along the way we'll discuss: 🍺 Why Ring Around the Rosie probably isn't about the plague 🍺 The theory that London Bridge involved human sacrifice 🍺 Why Humpty Dumpty may have been a cannon and not an egg 🍺 The horrifying versions of Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty 🍺 The real purpose of fairy tales before Disney got involved 🍺 Why medieval parents and modern parents might not be as different as we'd like to think And, as always, we'll be asking the same question over and over again: WHO APPROVED THIS SHIT? Grab a beer, an energy drink, a questionable gas station beverage, or whatever chaos fuel you're running on today and join us for an episode that proves humanity has been trauma-dumping on children through storytelling for centuries. Stay haunted, ghosties. 👻🍻📖 #BrothersGrimm #FairyTales #NurseryRhymes #DarkHistory #Folklore #TrueCrimeAdjacent #BrewsWithBoos #HistoryPodcast #DarkHumor #PodcastLife
