Seems like a strange place to dig a well as water does not flow uphill. What the hell is going on here?????
2006-10-30 06:19:33 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Oh my, nice observation there spam.
2006-10-30 06:27:19 · update #1
Could be many things like
1) you can't go tumbling down an acre of flat land
2) Jack was stupid and just followed his gold digger wife so she could finish him off and get the cottage and the cows
3) Two kids fooling around on top of a hill, and water was just the cover story...
It never did come out and say the source of the water, it was just
"Jack and Jill went up the Hill
To fetch a pail of water.
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after."
I've heard that a lot of old Mother Goose poems and prose were alluding to other things like public figures. For example Georgie Porgie was supposed to be a swinger King who'd screw around and hide behind his title when the husbands of his many mistresses got mad at him. Maybe Jack and Jill were supposed to represent something else entirely and we just can't see it anymore because the issue and the metaphor is out of date and/or historically insignificant or unimportant.
2006-10-30 06:45:19 · answer #1 · answered by Rick R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I understand the well was at the top of the hill. Also, water starts from the top of a hill. Possibly from a spring. Some people believe that water is purer from its source. If Jack and Jill hadn't gone up there we wouldn't have that nursery rhyme.
2016-05-22 11:59:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. NO WELL. Perhaps it was a pond or lake. A person might go up hill to get cleaner water.
2006-10-30 06:24:36 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack and Jill were teenager and they lied to thier parents so they could go up the hill to have a little quiet time together.
2006-10-30 06:24:55 · answer #4 · answered by Cherry Berry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly, the rhyme never says they were going to a well. I wonder where we all got that idea from?
2006-10-30 06:22:12 · answer #5 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was obviously planned and built by the government!
2006-10-30 06:22:16 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the rhyme never mentions a well.
Psh.
It's a vending machine. Duh.
2006-10-30 08:02:34 · answer #7 · answered by ummmcolleen 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋