Re: Ring Around the Rosies
Posted by Bob on September 03, 2001 at 12:50:56:
In Reply to: Re: Ring Around the Rosies posted by Hollyann on October 26, 2000 at 16:36:49:
Whenever children join hands in a circle, they sing this song of posies. The origin of this rose-colored ditty is something far more sinister � the Great Plague that swept through Europe in the 1600s. A rosy rash is the first symptom of the plague. The posies are herbs and spices carried to sweeten the air. The �a-tishoo� sneezing is another fatal symptom. (Later versions replace the sneezing with �ashes� from the cleansing bonfires.) When children fall down on the last line of this rhyme, they are unknowingly acting out their ancestors� disease.
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