Many Nursery Rhymes have darker origins. Ring around the Rosy as it is more commonly known here in the USA is a great example. In the versi...

Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian and Spanish), Dança da Morte (Portuguese), or Totentanz...

A plague doctor's duties were often limited to visiting victims to verify whether they had been afflicted or not. Surviving records of c...