Wicked stepmom or stepsister in Cinderella

Big Bad Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood

Gingerbread Hag from Hansel and Gretel

Giant from Jack and the Beanstalk

Stromboli from Pinnochio

Big Bad Wolf (This dude gets around) from Three little pigs

Goldilocks from Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Lucy Locket: this rhyme records a spat between two courtesans!?.

Georgie Porgie: Georgie Porgie is really a coward, a cad and a glutton.

Oranges and Lemons: But not only fruit was unloaded at Eastcheap: it was also the dock at which condemned men would disembark, to begin their final journey.??

Pop Goes the Weasel: actually about struggling to make ends meet.

Rub A Dub Dub: Rub a dub dub? Three maids in a tub? And how do you think they got there?? The butcher, the baker and the candlestick-maker.

Mary Mary Quite Contrary: Given that silver bells, cockleshells and maids are also terms for torture devices of the age.

Baa Baa Black Sheep: it’s about taxes! Back in the 13th century, King Edward I realized that he could make some decent cash by taxing the sheep farmers.

Humpty Dumpty: a generation of kids grew up thinking that Humpty Dumpty was a nonsense rhyme about an egg, rather than a fearsome killing machine.??

Ladybird Ladybird: This poor little ladybird is really a Catholic in 16th century Protestant England.

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Yes

No

Undecided

Not Applicable