![]() ![]() Likely, they joined hands around a flower bush or a rose tree (in French: Rosier), circled it a few times and fell down laughing (or even sneezing from the flower’s pollen). What’s more likely is the rhyme was really just a fun game that manifested later, after the Great Plague, and it was just a ditty for kids. 50 million people-died and a convenient little nursery rhyme had come up to commemorate their demise, someone would have written it down a time or two prior to the mid-1800s. ![]() One would think that if 1/3 of Europe-i.e. The first recorded version of the nursery rhyme did not show up until the mid-1800s, some 200 years after the plague. In fact, in all likelihood, that’s not at all where the verse comes from. In fact, there is a great deal of evidence that the nursery rhyme does not come from these deathly origins. (Eerie fun fact: During the COVD-19 pandemic lockdown, the song was used as a way to ensure one has washed their hands long enough, about 15 seconds.) Pocket full of posies were the flower pedals that plague doctors showered upon their deceased patients, which also helped to ward off their odor.Īshes, ashes meant the cremated remains of the deceased.Īnd yes, whether sick or not: we all fall down (at the end of our lives). Ring around the Rosie meant the itchy rash around the infected sore of a person sick with the plague. You learned in that moment that the meaning of the little ditty was not a cute nonsense nursery rhyme, but rather a chant of the damned. ‘My God,’ you may have thought, how could children sing about things like this? If you recall these halcyon salad days, then perhaps you also recall joining hands with some young friends and singing the lyrics to the nursery rhyme, “Ring Around the Rosie.”Īnd then the kids, after singing the song, holding hands, and moving in a circle, would drop to the ground and laugh! Ah, the good ol’ days.īut perhaps later as an adult, you learned the truth: that “Ring Around the Rosie” is really a deathly little poem all about the bubonic plague in London in the 1600s. Do you remember being a young kid? If so, you likely remember playing on the playground in elementary school or maybe in the back yard of a grandparent or friend’s house.
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