This claim has been discredited by those who have studied the Mother Goose nursery rhymes and stories and no record or trace has ever been found of the so-called 'ghost book'. There's also a claim that an American woman was the real Mother Goose and that her son-in-law published a book of her stories back in the early 1700s. The Mother Goose nursery rhymes we know today come from two main sources: a book published in France in 1697 and a book published in England in about 1765. Some of the tales were blended with parts of other stories to form new ones so that it's almost impossible to work out where the original tale began and what format it took.
Some of the rhymes weren’t written for children at all but for adults. Sometimes the changes were accidental and sometimes the stories were intentionally adapted to suit the purposes of the storyteller, to suit his audience or to reflect events that were happening at the time. These stories and rhymes were handed down orally from one generation to the next but, because they were never written down, they changed quite a lot over the years.
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