Rawak Article: Ring a Ring a Rosies meaning.

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posted by 1-2vampire

Ring a Ring a Rosies,
a pocket full of posies
ATISHOO ATISHOO, we all fall down

Known to be a song about a ring of roses, little children Singing in a row, then anda sneeze and anda fall down. Did anda ever play that game as a young child? Hold hands and dance in a circle?

Now for the reality.

This nursery rhyme is about the Black Plague.

Ring a ring a rosies - anda used to have large pinky red circles on your skin, this is how anda knew anda had the plague.

A pocket full of posies - People used to hold posies up to their nose to keep the smell of death away. They also believed that it would keep the plague away. (didn't work)

Atishoo Atishoo we all fall down - anda know what THAT means? if not that, people would sneeze and cough and you'd know that OHMYGOD WERE DYING! And you'd all fall down (basically, you've popped your clogs)

Some people think it is a very, haunting, creepy song if sung in a certain way other than the cheerful way.

Randomness lol.

Tdinoahiscute4, cutiegirl01 and 5 others like this

Catbr Cool how do you know this?

1-2vampire History lol

Thekirby801 creepy i will never sing that song again

twilight0girl Wow, i used to sing that song ALL THE TIME when i was little (i think i was in kindergarden) and would sing that at school. And that's also really cool to know :D **5 Stars***

cutiegirl01 It is ashes, ashes, we all fall down. That was when they burned them to death. But it was a good story

1-2vampire ^ yeah I just put the more commonly used version. Ashes to ashes was the original.

Claudia4599 I told all my friends this two years ago! Its still a good thing to know. Right now we are studying the black plague and all my friends are singing this.... the teacher thinks were crazy!