Thread: Ring around the Rosie and the Black Plague?

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its truth, in my world history major class, we learnt all about it,[world history from the beginning of recorded history till thje 21 centyry] my professer told us that this song was used as a childs song to calm the children down and have them not think that they might be dead the next day. I wish I took notes lol

The OMSI Museum did an exhibit on diseases. They covered the plague and claimed that the rhyme was about the plague. Wouldn't it be funny to find out that the museum was wrong?

So much for their credibility!

Originally Posted by HocusPocus

So I'm driving home from the video store with a movie called Ring around the Rosie and my 14 yr old says, did you know that song is about the Black Plague. Apparently, they learned in school that the song is about the Black Plague, the posies are what people would put in the pockets of the deceased to help with the smell...and ashes ashes is because they would burn the bodies... I reckon it makes sense but I was still rather surprised...Has anyone ever heard of this?

Did you also know that "The Dance Macobre" was made represent the "Black Death"? I learned that while I was trying to find the composer of the peice.

daughter--- that is Danz of the Macabre--- SMOOCH
and that I did not know.

I had like everyone else read/heard the ring around the rosie story

I've heard the Ring-around-the-Rosie story (should be noted that here in Canada we say "hush-a, hush-a, we all fall down" at the end. And in the version I heard, the "hush-a" part is because people lost their voices right before dying from the plague. LOL. I think that maybe with so many different versions around, it is just an urban legend that people have repeated/taught without finding credible sources.

My social teacher told me and the rest of the class that it's about the black plague. The guy is an encyclopedia of trivial information like that and is rarely wrong.

wow, Crunch, what a interesting thread to dig out of the archives!! be interesting to see what others have to say!

I was taught this meaning, too, but I guess it's a common myth.

EDIT: Haha, just noticed the age of this thread

It's really that old? O_O