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Three Blind Mice
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Real Names

Unknown

First Appearance

Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609)

Created by

Thomas Ravenscroft

Origin[]

"Three Blind Mice" is an English nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753.

The modern words are: Three blind mice. Three blind mice. See how they run. See how they run. They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life As three blind mice?

The book, The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice (1904), fleshes the mice out into mischievous characters who seek adventure, eventually being taken in by a farmer whose wife chases them from the house and into a bramble bush, which blinds them. Soon after, their tails are removed by "the butcher's wife" when the complete version incorporates the original verse—although the earliest version from 1609 does not mention tails being cut off. The story ends with them using a tonic to grow new tails and recover their eyesight, learning a trade (making wood chips, according to the accompanying illustration), buying a house and living happily ever after.

Public Domain Musical Appearances[]

  • Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (1609)

Public Domain Literary Appearances[]

  • The Complete Version of Ye Three Blind Mice (1904)
  • Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes (1922)

Public Domain Comic Appearances[]

  • Four Color Comics #68, 90, 103, 172, 253
  • Wonderland Comics #2

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