Ring around the rosies / myLot

Chile

July 9, 2020 2:51pm CST

I was checking online the nursery rhyme after several things fell from my hands while I was doing my chores. I cleaned thoroughly the sink but after that my hands were trembling. It is not nice to be old

So I came back to my bedroom (so clean and ready for tomorrow´s technician) and started t sing the "ring around the rosies" song. I was shocked to see that it had to do with the Great Plague. OMG! Even in nursery rhymes we are surrounded by infection! Still, I will not surrender. I cleaned the sink! Have you done any special thing today?

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DianneN

@DianneN (246838)

• United States

9 Jul 20

I was aware of that.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215441)

• Chile

9 Jul 20

As this is a nursery rhyme that is not part of my heritage, I did not know that until now. I did know of the Black Plague written by Boccaccio or paintings of the period that I have seen in museums.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215441)

• Chile

9 Jul 20

@DianneN I´ll check it now. I know a couple of anti Jewish songs in Spanish that I sung as a little girl until my mother forbid me to sing them (not explaining though).

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DianneN

@DianneN (246838)

• United States

9 Jul 20

@marguicha I didn't know it as a little girl when I sand and danced to it, but learned later in life. The same is true for London Bridge.

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Marlina

@marlina (154166)

• Canada

9 Jul 20

Well, I would have never known the meaning of those lyrics if you did not write about it today, thanks. "To ashes, to ashes We all fall down Like I said they would gather the sick in a circle then burn them they would turn to ashes and fall down they did it to stop the virus.

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marguicha

@marguicha (215441)

• Chile

9 Jul 20

For decades I had only thought that "they all fall down" just meant infirmity in my hands as I thought today. And then, when I read about the accurate symptoms of the Black Plague (which, by the way, is the one they have now in Mongolia) it is eerie.