Creepy Facts You Never Knew...

Ring Around The Rosie..

Now I'm pretty sure we are all too familiar with the old little rhyme Ring Around the Rosie. Now as we may think of this old nursery rhyme as nothing but a fun little rhyme it tends to have a dark background..

Now this song was originated from back in 1881 and was first found in Mother Goose. Now some people say it was just a harmless little ryhme here to amuse and be passed on for ages to come but instead it was, as most say, created by the events of the Black Death plauge. This plauge spreaded rapidly, killing people within days and the verses of the song gives you a pretty clear description of what it was like.

The very first verse of the song " Ring around the Rosie" is referring to a symptom to which would occur when you first got the plauge. A red circle would form on your skin and with that little red bumps would start showing up as well giving it the appearance of a rose bush. Then the second verse " Pockets full of posies" is referring to how when someone died from the plauge they would put Posies in the corpse pockets to lower down the stench of the rotting flesh. Now the second to the last verse " Ashes ashes" is emphasizing how they would burn the dead bodies to try and stop the spread of the plauge by burning them to ashes. Now the last verse of the entire rhyme " We all fall down". This is probably the worst part of the entire song, it's representing on how all of humanity would fall due to the plauge and no one would be left..

Remember that next time you sing that silly little ol' nursery ryhme. Have a nice day..