whats the nursery rhyme ring around the rosie all about? someone told me it was about the plague. i was told that posies were put on the eyes of the dead and that the bodies were burned to stop the spread of the plague.
Ring around the rosie: circular bubonic scars appear on victim
Pocket full of posies: popular way of fending off the plague
Ashes, Ashes: Dead were creamated
We all fall down: We all die
It’s just a nonsense rhyme, and somebody decided there just had to be an explanation for it, so they came up with the plague thing. The link explains it better.