2007-02-20 00:37:23 · 6 answers · asked by lonely05003 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
people used to sleep in beds made of hay... bugs would crawl in there to get warm.. and they would bite
Good night
Sleep Tight
Don't let the
Bed bugs bite
And if they do
Take your Shoe
Beat them till
They're black and blue.
2007-02-20 00:41:52 · answer #1 · answered by J-Rod on the Radio 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've acturaly see a kind of bug called a bed bug that bite people when they sleep so I would say the whole saying came from that. I was watching Inside Edition on channel nine when they were showing disgusting hotel rooms.
2007-02-20 03:02:13 · answer #2 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The poem already written in answers is quite correct. As a bit of extra information, Bed Bugs are a specific species of insect that live on digested blood. Even into the 1940s people would put the legs of there beds into tin cans with kerosene in them to keep bed bugs from climbing up into mattresses and infesting them.
2007-02-20 02:07:16 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beds had bed bugs (which bite) back when it originated, so it meant 'Sleep well'.
2007-02-20 00:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean where did it origniate from, try google or wikepeida.
2007-02-20 00:40:13 · answer #5 · answered by Apfel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
During the black plague.
2007-02-20 00:40:26 · answer #6 · answered by roseysuzy1128 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋