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Heard Any Good Ones: Part 2
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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 116715" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Origins</p><p> </p><p> "Ring around the rosies</p><p>Pocketful of posies....."</p><p> </p><p>I never realized the origin of this childhood chant was so dark....</p><p> </p><p>Ring around the roses: According to James Leasor in The Plague and the Fire, this "had its origins in the London Plague of 1664. Rosy refers to the rosy rash of plague...The posies were herbs and spices carried to ward off the disease; sneezing was a common symptom of those close to death. In the Annotated Mother Goose, the authors note that the third line is often given as a sneezing noise ("At-choo, at-choo") and that "'We all fall down' was, in a way, exactly what happened."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 116715, member: 1246"] Origins "Ring around the rosies Pocketful of posies....." I never realized the origin of this childhood chant was so dark.... Ring around the roses: According to James Leasor in The Plague and the Fire, this "had its origins in the London Plague of 1664. Rosy refers to the rosy rash of plague...The posies were herbs and spices carried to ward off the disease; sneezing was a common symptom of those close to death. In the Annotated Mother Goose, the authors note that the third line is often given as a sneezing noise ("At-choo, at-choo") and that "'We all fall down' was, in a way, exactly what happened." [/QUOTE]
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