Ring around the rosie.

Citizen Posts : 228 Registration date : 2009-03-22

After I heard why it was made (about a week ago.) I never played it EVER again. It scares me now. I usually love playing it though.

I would just explain it myself, but I'm SO tired!
I got this from WikiAnswers:

Q: The meaning of "Ring Around the Rosie?"

A:"Ring around the Rosie, A pocket full of Posies, Ashes Ashes we all fall down.
There was a plague that happened in the thirteenth century, it was called the Black Death, or Black Plague. So many people died that they thought it was the end of the world.
Ring around the Rosie is because one of the parts of the plague is that you would get black sores all over your body (your rosie is around the center of the back of your hand), A pocket full of posies is because people would carry posies around to not smell the sickening scent of dead bodies everywhere.
Ashes Ashes we all fall down means the ashes from all the bodies being burned on pyres (because they bruned the bodies when they died). We all fall down is because they died."

Does this scare you, or is it just me? Well. It scared me at first, but I calmed down a bit. (We are learning the Black Plague/Death in school and my friend told me about this so I decided to do my "research.")

Subject: Re: Ring around the rosie. March 23rd 2009, 6:27 pm

Oh, I found this out a while ago. I thought it was kinda freaky at first but then I thought it was actually sorta cool what we could all adapt into our preschools.

Adept Posts : 1526 Registration date : 2008-11-05

So you just copied something off WikiAnswers when most schools teach you this sometime later on?
I've just learned about this a few weeks back and it didn't scare me one bit.

Hero for Hire Posts : 1368 Registration date : 2008-11-04

i never knew this, and its kinda wierd. it doesnt "scare" me, but it is creepy.

Citizen Posts : 228 Registration date : 2009-03-22

Argie wrote:: Oh, I found this out a while ago. I thought it was kinda freaky at first but then I thought it was actually sorta cool what we could all adapt into our preschools.

That's what I felt.

Snowiyflake wrote:: i never knew this, and its kinda wierd. it doesnt "scare" me, but it is creepy.

Yeah.

Digintary Posts : 2622 Registration date : 2008-01-27

My friend told me about this a few months ago.

Sidekick Posts : 521 Registration date : 2009-01-18

Yes, this is known by most people.

And, if we are to be pedantic - it would be;

Ring a ring of roses,
A pocket full of posies
A-tisue A-tisue
We all fall down.

The "A-tisue" Symoblising the sneeze, which was usually a sign of the plague.

Forum Legend Posts : 6175 Registration date : 2008-02-23

Sorry to say this, but the origin has never been confirmed.
It's not really "scary" per-say, but it doesn't really affect anything.
It's just an origin of something.

Super-Human Posts : 3072 Registration date : 2008-01-26

NO but i can imagne a girl playing that in a dress and then it shows her face all demorfed and she so scary and thers dead bodies everywherethats whats scaring me a little bit

Super-Human Posts : 3072 Registration date : 2008-01-26

Did you know it wasnt from the air or anything it was bacteria and the leeches picked it up and got on balck rats so they spread them everywhere so people were dying becuase of that but they didnt know it was from the rats

We still are in the black death but its treatable so we cant die

Vanguard Posts : 4319 Registration date : 2008-09-01

Please do not double post, Weirdal.

Super-Human Posts : 3960 Registration date : 2008-09-01

I recently saw a rather graphic and disgusting documentary on the black death in history recently. 8X

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