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== Literature ==
* The climax of the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[
* [[Agatha Christie]]'s novel ''[[And Then There Were None]]'' features a rhyme about Indian boys being killed one by one, which many of the characters recognized from their nursery days. Said characters are killed in the same manner as the Indians in the song. There are even Indian dolls in the living room that disappear as the characters are bumped off.
** This is an arguably benign and harmless bowdlerisation of the original. Both rhyme and book were originally entitled "Ten little Niggers", one paperback actually featured a hanged golliwog (a kind of [[Gonk]] doll based on a blackface minstrel figure) on the cover. It was later further [[bowdlerize]]d as "Ten Little Soldier Boys". [[Acceptable Targets]] keep moving...
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* There's a Finnish children's rhyme that ends in these words:
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''The one who comes last, he is [[The Grim Reaper|Death]].
* "Blood on the Saddle" is a catchy, never-ending ditty about falling off a horse and squishing one's brains out.
* The traditional Jewish equivalent of "The House That Jack Built" ends with the ANGEL OF DEATH coming to kill the butcher who killed the ox who drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that hit the dog that bit the cat that ate the goat that Daddy bought for two zuzim... (There may be another verse after that about the Angel of Death himself dying in the End of Days, but that just makes it weirder).
** There is indeed another verse, and there comes the Lord (literally, "the Holy One, Blessed be He"), probably in the End of Days.
* A Viennese song, "Heidschi Bumm-Beidschi", is often sung as a Christmas carol. Its origins lie in the Turk siege of Vienna, and "Heidschi Bumm-Beidschi" refers to Turk skirmishers who took children as slaves to be raised as soldiers. So it was a creepy nursery tune to begin with.
* During the Spanish Flu<ref>More correctly called the H1N1 flu.</ref> Pandemic, there is one that children started singing. However it's not familiar to most people now. Despite a common estimate for the death toll being 50-100 million in the span of
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