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Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror in the Songs We Gave to Our Children

Lullabies of Death: Blood, Plague, and Hidden Horror in the Songs We Gave to Our Children

Wilson, Heinrich
Van Halen, Victoria

Paperback

Literary CriticismGeneral PsychologyMusic Reference

ISBN13: 9798235192621
Publisher: Heinrich Wilson Publishing
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

You sang these songs as a child. So did your parents. So did theirs.

You had no idea what you were singing.

Behind the cheerful melodies and innocent circles of childhood lie documented histories of plague, execution, religious persecution, political betrayal, and mass death. The wool tax that left the medieval poor with nothing. The Viking attack that brought London Bridge down. The one hundred and thirty children who walked out of Hamelin on June 26, 1284 and never came back. The queen who burned nearly three hundred people alive and called it mercy. The priests hidden inside the walls of English houses by a man who died on the rack in the Tower of London. The cannon that fell from the wall at Colchester and could not be raised. The children born inside a prison who learned to sing before they learned what a prison was.

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