Shame Mudcat doesn't offer a Fakelore prefix.

Mind you, I'll accept Seeds of Love (etc.) is just a load of cunningly circumlocuted knob-gags to as to sing such smut in front a mixed family audience. But symbolic? Schymbollocks! Such thinking has blighted Folklore since The Golden Bough & forms the foundation of much Neo-Pagan thought to this day in which every natural thing is prescribed a symbolic meaning.

The notion that folkloric customs, ceremonies & songs consists of survivals of anything pagan / occult is part and parcel of a particularly bourgeois conceit that believes the gubby rustics who perpetuated it were entirely ignorant of its true significance. It's an odious notion, one that has been proved false time and time again.

Next you'll be telling us Ring a Roses is a reportage on the symptoms of the Black Death...