History YMMV / ChildBallads

** "Little Sir Hugh" (#155): Jews are AlwaysChaoticEvil and [[HumanSacrifice regularly sacrifice innocent Christian children]].

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop:

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* CoveredUp: Inevitable, since their authors' names are all lost to history.
* EarWorm: Many, many {{Ear Worm}}s.

* ValuesDissonance: Loads and loads.

* FridgeHorror: "The Maid and the Palmer" (#21)'s theme of infanticide is plenty disturbing in and of itself. However, there are some variants that have the Maid's children as having been fathered by her father, brother, and uncle or cousin ... which raises the possibility that some of those children may well have been [[ChildByRape conceived via rape]].

** "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child #9): Scottish people all suffer from ChronicBackstabbingDisorder.
** "The Twa Corbies" (Child #26): You will die alone, your pets and lover will forget you and leave your body to be eaten by crows.
** "The Baffled Knight" (Child #112): if you meet some sweet young thing in the woods, you'd better go ahead and ''rape her right then and there'', because otherwise she'll get away. As the ''sweet young thing'' explains to him after her escape.
** "Little Sir Hugh" (Child #155): Jews are AlwaysChaoticEvil and [[HumanSacrifice regularly sacrifice innocent Christian children]].
* MoralEventHorizon: The Captain's ingratitude in "The Golden Vanity" (Child #286)

** "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" (Child #73), "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (Child #74), "Sweet William's Ghost" (Child #77) and "The Unquiet Grave" (Child #78) all deal with StarCrossedLovers separated by death.

** "The Twa Corbies" (Child #26): When you die, your pets and wife will forget you and leave your body to be eaten by crows.

* CoveredUp: Inevitable, since that their authors' names are all lost to history.

** "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child #9): Scottish people are AlwaysChaoticEvil.

** "Little Sir Hugh" (Child #155): Jews are AlwaysChaoticEvil and sacrifice innocent Christian children just ForTheEvulz.

** The moral of "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child #9) is that Scottish people are AlwaysChaoticEvil.
** "The Baffled Knight" (Child #112), wherein the hero learns that, if you meet some sweet young thing in the woods, you'd better go ahead and ''rape her right then and there'', because otherwise she'll get away. As the ''sweet young thing'' explains to him after her escape.
** The moral of "Little Sir Hugh" (Child #155) is that Jews are not only AlwaysChaoticEvil, but they also sacrifice innocent Christian children just ForTheEvulz.

* UnfortunateImplications: "Little Sir Hugh" (Child #155). And how. In this case, though, it's Unfortunate Text.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: Tons.

* UnfortunateImplications: "Little Sir Hugh" (Child #155) is this trope incarnate.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: "The Baffled Knight" (Child #112), wherein the hero learns that, if you meet some sweet young thing in the woods, you'd better go ahead and ''rape her right then and there'', because otherwise she'll get away. As the ''sweet young thing'' explains to him after her escape.

** The moral of "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child #9) is that Scottish people are [[AlwaysChaoticEvil]].

** The moral of "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child #9) is that Scottish people are all [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbers]].

* CoveredUp: Rather inevitable, given that their authors' names are all lost to history.

* CompleteMonster: Long Lankin

** "Lord Thomas and Fair Annet" (Child #73), "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" (Child #74), "Sweet William's Ghost" (Child #77) and "The Unquiet Grave" (Child #78) all deal with StarCrossedLovers separated by death.

* MoralEventHorizon: The Captain's ingratitude in "The Golden Vanity" (Child #286)