What is mondays child

They feel the weight of the world, with a caring and compassionate outlook, often to the point of sadness for others. Modern uses associate with the term with children in foster care and from broken homes. However, traditional versions focus on the concept of positive abilities and talents that will take them far in life, rather than attributes to overcome.

Friday children are big-hearted and generous. However, in many traditional versions, anything on a Friday was held as bad luck. Numerous versions exist for the Sabbath, or Sunday child. The original version of the nursery rhyme actually refers to Christmas Day, rather than Sunday. Christmas December 25th was traditionally the luckiest day of birth. What Day of the Week were you Born on? What Animal is Your Child? Find Their Chinese Zodiac Sign.

Sign in. The memories of childhood touch us forever! Many of the songs featured also include links to the Mama Lisa website, where you can find recordings, videos and sheet music. Over 50 lullabies and recordings from all over the world. Each Lullaby includes the full text in the original language, with an English translation.

Please contribute a traditional song or rhyme from your country. Monday's Child is Fair of Face. Monday's Child is Fair of Face England. Nursery Rhyme. Monday's child is fair of face, Tuesday's child is full of grace, Wednesday's child is full of woe, Thursday's child has far to go.

Easy Print Pack Download a printable PDF of this rhyme, including the lyrics, alternate version, and a link to a recording. Comments Kirsten calls Monday's Child a "traditional Scottish saying". Thanks and Acknowledgements Many thanks to Kirsten Helmersen for sending me this rhyme. Mama Lisa's Books Our books feature songs in the original languages, with translations into English.

Kid Songs Around The World. Paperback on Amazon. To my surprise I came across this wonderfully researched version.

Thank you very much for answering my question and so much more. What a wonderful post! Love all the detail and history you put into this, especially since I spent a good amount of my childhood in Suffolk, UK. I love the history of things, too and I highlight them on my interior design blog in my Design History series. I am bookmarking your blog! Feel free to stop by mine anytime and I will return the favor of a great story!

Thanks again!!! Turns out to be one of my most read posts. They all have fascinating histories. What a wonderful post.. I linked to it from our Library Facebook Page on Oct.

Thank you. I doubt it, but it would suit my story nicely. Any thoughts? The OE word is Wea long e. The notion that the originator of the poem might have known the meaning of the days of the week must remain sheer speculation. I personally doubt it and would strongly bet against it, since such knowledge if even known then would have been absurdly unlikely. Would they have known the etymological origins of the word Wednesday?

But then one needs to speculate that one of these scholars was the author of the poem or that the author of the poem was privy to the etymological knowledge of these scholars. It all gets increasingly unlikely. Was the poem originally anglo-saxon? Also unlikely. The most likely explanation is that the original author, or those who passed on and probably changed the poem, liked the alliteration of Wednesday and woe — making the poem easier to remember.

A splendid piece. Pingback: I had a little nut tree… « PoemShape. Katherine of Aragorn — Given the fact that she was Spanish, I would suggest Catherine as being more appropriate. Aragorn is clearly a misprint as, I suppose, is the result of sneezing on Wednesday — surely a letter, not a litter.

I decided the poem was likely not about Catherine, Katharine or Katherine. Edit: It occurs to that if I change letter to letter, I also have to change better, like so:. Its a very good site and sooo full of lots of information. I like the fact that so many different books are mentiond.

People will have such a wide choice of books to choose from. Thanks Jenny, this post remains my most visited — much to my surprise. Thought I would share this version with you. This was an awesome article! I love how much information you included in it. As a fun coincidence for me, all three of my boys were born on Wednesdays, and if you take the first letter of each of their first names it spells out W.

But they have brought so much joy to my life! Deep down, I suspect the validity of the various superstitions…. Well, besides to rhyme with the next line! Thanks Andrew. What would have taken me a trip to the Library and a research librarian 20 years ago was solved by the world wide web otherwise known as God in about 3 seconds from the comfort of my laptop.

There have long been perpetual calendars and several ways to calculate the day of week in your head. A tedious party trick. Now, a harder question on calendars but not metaphysics : can you die before you have lived? That had me going until I remembered that they must have been using the Julian calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar — almost like a Mensa puzzle. The Gregorian and Julian calendars were roughly co-mensa-rate, not this far off.

The issue is with the convention of when the year started. England was off in its own world: until its legal year began on March 25th. The whole idea is to prevent spam. The other possibility is that you included two links in your comment — this too will trigger the spam filter.

Very interesting read—enjoyed the comments too. Thanks all! Yes, and the same is true of fables and fairy tales, changing from one retelling to another, from one culture to another. Fascinating stuff.