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18 Dark And Disturbing Lullabies From Around The World. Turns out, scaring children to sleep is a global phenomenon. Lullaby melodies often sound sweet, but the lyrics can tell a very grim tale. Lullabies may be sweet, soothing bedtime songs, but they can also be creepy as hell when you really listen to the lyrics.
- "Nana nenê" // Brazil
- "Duérmete Niño" // Spanish
- "Bayu Bayushki Bayu" // Russia
- "Ninna Nanna" // Italy
- "Lelo Ledung" // Javanese
- And 8. "Bíum, Bíum, Bambaló" and "Sofðu Nú Svínið Þitt" // Iceland
- "Highland Fairy Lullaby" // Scotland
- "Lima Anak Ayam" // Malaysia
- "Kråkevisa" // Norway
- "Incili Bebek Ninnisi" // Turkey
This Brazilian lullaby invokes Cuca (a crocodile-hag from legends), the idea of parents not being there to protect you, an ox-monster, and a bogeyman called Bicho Papão lurking on the roof. All the stuff that puts a child right at ease. Listen here.
This lullaby is sung in Spain and Latin American in various versions. It warns that if you don’t go to sleep, a shapeshifting monster called the Coco will eat you up. In some countries the Coco is substituted with el Lobo (the wolf), which doesn’t make it any less scary. Listen here.
In Russia, it’s a wolf that’s going to get you off the edge of your bed and drag you off into the woods. Listen here. More Articles About Nursery Rhymes:
In Italy, the old hag, the bogeyman, and the white wolf will get you, but not because they’ll drag you off. No, your mother’s going to just giveyou to them. Listen here.
On the Indonesian island of Java there is a scary giant looking for crying children. Also, crying will make you ugly. Translation from mamalisa.com; listen here.
Iceland has perhaps the scariest creature of all. The one that you don’t even know what it is. All you know is that it’s lurking, lurking… Listen to the Sigur Rós version with lyrics and translation here. There's also this Icelandic classic, which I haven’t been able to find the melody for: Which translates to
In Scotland there are no scary creatures to carry you off. Your mother’s just going to put you down and lose you. Listen here.
In this medley of lullabies by Malaysian singer Zee Avi, the third one, starting at 1:10, goes straight to baby chicks dying.
This Norwegian lullaby ballad isn’t directly about a sleeping child and what will happen to them, but about a man who thinks a crow is going to kill him, so he kills it first. A gory catalog of all the uses he makes out of the carcass follows. The lesson of the song is finally summed up in the moral, “A person who cannot make use of a crow like thi...
This Turkish lullaby comes from a story where a man who wished for a child promised that he would sacrifice three camels if he had a child, but on the way to the sacrifice decided to keep the camels instead. This, from the perspective of the singing mother, is what happened next. Full lullaby text and story here. Sweet dreams!
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4. Juli 2020 · Children's common lullabies, nursing rhymes and songs all have disturbing and dark meanings. Lullabies and Nursing rhymes all have really disturbing and sad meanings. BabyGaga
3. Dez. 2023 · Parenting. Published Dec 3, 2023. By. Devan McGuinness. Public Domain, Public Domain. It seems intuitive: We bring home a new baby, and as we're awake with them in the middle of the night, we quietly sing lullabies, hoping it will ease the little one into sleep.
29. Juni 2021 · Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream. The lyrics to this song don't have any deep, unknown, disturbing meaning — at least not ...
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12. Nov. 2021 · Using IBM’s Watson tool we analysed the tone of 6 of the creepiest lullabies we could find, to get a better understanding of the themes and emotions that are hidden behind the deceptively-soothing harmonies.
16. Feb. 2018 · Examples of creepy lullaby creatures include: • The baby snatching Highland Fairy from Scotland. • The Haitian crab that will eat any child left awake at night. • An Indonesian Giant in search of crying children at night. • The shapeshifter prepared to haunt anyone left awake in Trinidad and Tobago.
