Did you guys know that many authors such as 'Mother Goose' and even 'Shakespeare' were said to be 'ghost authors'?
What this means is that the name was a phony, and was designed to conceal the identity of the real author, or in most cases authors.
The reason for this is because these works tended to be critical of the secular and ecclesiastical authorities of the time, and that was of course very dangerous.
Several Mother Goose verses were thinly disguised critiques of the above mentioned. For instance, this verse is suppose to reveal an esoteric aspect of the Catholic Church;
"Mistress Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row."
Mistress Mary is obvious, but you might note that silver bells are associated with several of the Moon goddesses, and cockle shells the Venusian types, revealing the ancient source of the RCC's actual legacy.
The Church of England is suppose to be the subject here;
"Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn! The sheeps in the meadow, the cows in the corn!
But where's the little boy who tends the sheep? He off in the haystack, fast asleep."
These are from memory, so excuse me if I don't get them perfect.
So, don't you think it's creepy that there was a Mother Hubbard rhyme from the 18th century (I think, the point is it's for sure old) that goes;
"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, to get her poor dog a bone,
When she got there, the cupboard was bare, and her poor dog had none."
Who were these guys writing this stuff, huh?