Talk:Cutty Wren

The Hunting of the Wren
The opening sentence of this section, "The Hunting of the Wren is the culmination of the myth of the wren who kills Cock Robin.", is completely confused (and confusing). There may be a relationship between the two ballads; both are thought by some folklorists to reflect the annual sacrifice of the symbolic Year King, as mentioned in the preceding section, Origin. I can't just remove the sentence, as it's the lead-in to the following one. For now I'll replace it with a more neutral link, with a clarify tag. It also needs a source; there are a couple of refs in the Cock Robin article, plus of course the ubiquitous The Golden Bough, but I don't have the resources to investigate them. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 16:54, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) The Wren didn't kill Cock Robin, the Sparrow did.
 * 2) There's no wren in Cock Robin at all.
 * 3) The ballad we're concerned with isn't about the wren killing someone, it's about the wren being hunted and slain.

"Green Bushes" reference is likely incorrect
I found a digitized copy of English Folk Songs, and the song "Green Bushes" in there bears no resemblance to the "Milder to Moulder" version of the song, as claimed in this article, and in fact those words do not appear in this song. A quick search through the book in fact does not show anything resembling this song anywhere. 24.32.151.170 (talk) 22:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)