The children's' rhyme......
Ring around the rosie....
Pocket full of posies.....
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down !!
Comes from the middle ages when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. The legend tells us that the onset of the plague was indicated by a sore or welt that appeared on the skin circled by a red ring...
Ring around the rosie....
If you had these welts on your body, the wives tale was to keep flowers in your pocket to ward off the evil and possibly even cure you....
Pocket full of posies.....
After a person succumbed to the terrible disease, the only way to make sure that the corpse was not contagious was to burn it. Sometimes these pyres were huge.....
Ashes, ashes we all fall down !
Basically, it's a short story about the end of the mankind. Kind of a morbid rhyme to teach your kids now that you know its origin.
therick
Ring around the rosie....
Pocket full of posies.....
Ashes, ashes, we all fall down !!
Comes from the middle ages when the bubonic plague was ravaging Europe. The legend tells us that the onset of the plague was indicated by a sore or welt that appeared on the skin circled by a red ring...
Ring around the rosie....
If you had these welts on your body, the wives tale was to keep flowers in your pocket to ward off the evil and possibly even cure you....
Pocket full of posies.....
After a person succumbed to the terrible disease, the only way to make sure that the corpse was not contagious was to burn it. Sometimes these pyres were huge.....
Ashes, ashes we all fall down !
Basically, it's a short story about the end of the mankind. Kind of a morbid rhyme to teach your kids now that you know its origin.
therick