How old were you when you learned 'Ring Around the Rosie' is actually about the Black Death!?? We all know know those Wednesday Addams types who are walking encyclopedias for the dark history behind seemingly cheerful and innocent things from our childhoods! 😜 But hey, the more you know! 🙌🌈
They didn't sprinkle them they went in the plague masks to mute the smell that's literally what the masks were for.😂 also loved the care bear verse " round and round where spinning we never know who's winning 1 2 3 we all fall down." So dark but so cheerful.
Actually, your half right. They would stuff flowers in the deceased’s pockets to drown out the smell. Doctors wore the masks because back then they didn’t know that diseases were caused by germs and thought they were caused by smell. (No offense, I’m just really into history)
@@Talontechrobotics miasma. It was to ward off the bad smells cuz they believed illness came from smell (germs hadn’t been discovered at the time of the plague)
In the UK, the lyrics were “a-tishoo, a-tishoo, we all fall down” like sneezing Edit: please don’t reply with just “same” it’s really annoying and I’ve gotten so many of them and I really don’t care if you say “same” 💀
We had this version and we quite Were told that the posies were in their pockets to stop the stench that would get you sick and with the a'tissue a'tissue when they got sick they sneezed so when Somone was sneezing they knew they were about to die.
When I was like 7 years old I ate a green chili in front of the biggest (in size ) maam with no expression and the maam freaked out and pointed at me while saying to other teachers that I am eating green chili. I just ate my green chili with school lunch without feeling any spiciness. Also I never cared whenever a bee was buzzing around me since I was a kid because I knew they are almost harmless if u don't do anything and just got weirded out by my classmates who made a fuss over a small bee.
To everyone who is confused why theirs was 'Husha" or "a tissue" or "achoo" instead of ashes. "Husha" and "achoo" are suposed to represent the sound of a sneeze, and you use a tissue when you are sick.
As a Victorian ghost boy, I was quite happy to learn of the honest meaning of the seemingly simple nursery rhyme. Though I believe I read somewhere that the posies were actually put in children’s pockets. People believed that they warded off the plague and worked as a nullifier of sorts if one were to be at risk of catching it. I’d never heard of the roses being a euphemism for the rashes. It makes sense, though. Perhaps the ring has something to do with how they treated the rashes the disease caused? Sort of like putting a ring of soap around a flea-infested kitten’s neck? The history behind this and every other nursery rhyme intrigues me. I’ve always been one for a darker or twisted way of seeing things, this was the thing that got me to realize that.
I remember I wasn’t allowed to sing this as a kid. My mom explained exactly what it meant when I was like 5. So I’d always tell everyone what it meant.
it’s actually teaching kids bc often ppl with the plague would put peonies in their pockets to hide the smell of decaying flesh bc the plague would make your flesh decay and the plague looked as if they were roses and to make she the plague wouldn’t spread through the dead bodies they would burn them immediately hope this helped:)
I was literally this kid since 1st grade .... my mom was a horror freak which is funny cause she's the most beautiful positive cheerleader princess type and she created me c: she's a beautiful and inconspicuous mother of darkness.
My elementary school didn’t have this girl, but she certainly would’ve spiced up our games! I did know a kid who knew the rhyme from a nightmare on elm street cause we were talking about Freddy Krueger though 💀
Lots of old Mother Goose nursery rhymes we grew up with are surprisingly dark. We grew up with them so the lyrics weren't thought about until later. Like with "Three Blind Mice" when you pay attention to what the farmer's wife does to the mice. And then there's "Oranges and Lemons", it was a playground game despite having "here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to CHOP OFF YOUR HEAD" at the end. For me, the real shock was with the Brothers Grimm fairytales, not that the original versions were much darker than the Disney versions (I knew that already) but that the Brothers Grimm themselves actually CLEANED UP the originals significantly to make them suitable for children to use to learn to read. Then reading the originals.
Omg the iron slide that's on fires is so true, it really does feel like that when it gets hot even when it's in the shade you need like a hoodie to go down it XD
