What happened to the three blind mice?
Wilfredo Rempel
2025-05-15 12:21:19
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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 thing in your life? As three blind mice.
The mice are believed to be three Protestant loyalists who were accused of plotting against Queen Mary I, also known as “Bloody Mary” due to her penchant for torture including burning of hundreds of Protestants at the stake as she worked to return England to Catholicism.
Needless to say, these 3 men were also burned alive at the stake.
Known as the Oxford Martyrs, Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer where not blind in the true sense of the word, but this referred to their Protestantism.
Cortney McLaughlin
2025-05-15 11:58:27
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They are often seen struggling to navigate and occasionally bump into each other. The mice first appeared on-screen during one of the first scenes in the original Shrek movie. We see them when they are banished from Lord Farquaad's kingdom and sent to Shrek's swamp. They show up at Shrek and Fiona's wedding where they are turned into two horses and a carriage rider by a fairy Godmother. However, they reappeared again shortly after as their original selves. Two of the mice are in their horse forms during the first portion of the short film, but when Shrek and Donkey crash the Onion Carriage into the Dead End Graveyard, the magic wears off and they revert back into mice. One of them has vision in his normal form for a split second before getting the pixie dust knocked out of him. They later join the dance during the end song, "Livin la Vida Loca." The same mice is later shown in Puss' mouth, almost eaten whole. They were seen in Shrek's swamp with Donkey, Puss, Three Pigs, Gingy, Pinocchio, and Wolf at the beginning, but it's revealed that they never made it to Duloc to tell scary stories, as they were walking in circles on a mini turning table.
Millie Funk
2025-05-15 08:51:10
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They all ran after the farmer's wife,
Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,
Did you ever see such a thing in your life,
As three blind mice?
Lindsey Legros
2025-05-15 07:05:21
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Almost exactly 54 years before “Three Blind Mice” was published, on October 16, 1555, Ridley and Latimer were burnt at the stake, with Cranmer suffering the same fate in March of the following year. Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer were martyred as a result of their “blind” devotion to Protestantism, during a period of British history when it was very unpopular to be Protestant. When these laws came into effect, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer were summoned to Oxford to stand trial, essentially, for their Protestantism. One by one, they all refused to subscribe to the Catholic concept of transubstantiation, so they were found guilty and put to death. Bloody Mary may not have “cut off [the] tails” of the Oxford Martyrs, but their executions were likely common knowledge in 1609, as well as how their “blindness” and unwillingness to submit to Catholicism got them killed. With the benefit of hindsight, we can assume that, had Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer managed to live with Catholicism for three years, they likely would have escaped execution.
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