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What happened to the 3 blind mice?
Ivimey entitled The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice, fleshes the mice out into mischievous characters who seek adventure, eventually being taken in by a farmer whose wife chases them from the house and into a bramble bush, which blinds them.
Do the 3 blind mice have names?
410 years ago today, on 11 October 1609, the children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” was published in London by Frederick Warne & Co., in an illustrated children’s book by John W. “Three Blinde Mice, Three Blinde Mice, Dame Iulian, Dame Iulian, the Miller & his merry olde Wife, she scrapte her tripe licke thou the knife”.
Where does 3 Blind Mice come from?
“Three Blind Mice” The three blind mice in this story are supposedly the Oxford Martyrs, three Anglican bishops who refused to renounce their Protestant beliefs, and were executed by Mary for “blindly” following Protestant learnings rather than Catholic ones.
What did the farmer’s wife cut off in the song Three Blind Mice?
Three blind mice! See how they run! They all ran after the farmer’s wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Who wrote Three Blind Mice nursery rhyme?
Thomas Ravenscroft
Three Blind Mice/Composers
Where does the story Three Blind Mice come from?
Some historians believe the origin of the words to ‘Three Blind Mice’ lie with the English queen Mary I (1516–58), known as Bloody Mary because of the hundreds of religious dissenters she had burned at the stake. Mary was the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon.
What’s the index number for Three Blind Mice?
“Three Blind Mice” is an English-language nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.
When did the tails of the mice get cut off?
Soon after, their tails are removed by “the butcher’s wife” when the complete version incorporates the original verse—although the earliest version from 1609 does not mention tails being cut off.
Why did the Three Blind Mice burn the Bible?
Another, less convincing theory is that three blind commoners, Joan Waste, John Aprice and an unspecified third, defied Queen Mary’s ban on reading the Bible in English and between them paid for a copy to have it read to them in public, as a result of which they were also burned at the stake.