I've wondered for some time if the nursery rhyme,"Mary Had a Little Lamb" was some sort of a religious satire concocted during the "Age of Reason". If you go through the verses with the thought in mind that it is a criticism of religion in general and Catholicism in particular, the words take on quite a different meaning: Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow,etc. I won't go into details now, but it may be something to think about...