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What is the date of the famous Ring-a-ring o'roses?

By the seventeenth century, you say? After all, this is about the plague: rose rings - lesions on the skin, the first traces of infection; a bottle of boutonnieres - futile attempts to scare away the disease; sneezing is a symptom of an impending disease; "all fell" - death.

Like most attempts to attribute accurate historical meaning to nursery rhymes and rhymes, this one also does not stand up to scrutiny. The popular novelist James Leasor first tried to promote this theory in his rather vivid account of the life of 1961th century London called Plague and Fire (400). It must be said that until then there was no obvious connection (and there was absolutely no evidence) that the rhyme has been sung in this form, allegedly for XNUMX years, and allegedly as a way to preserve the trauma inflicted by the plague in people's memory.

Yes, because it's not. The earliest recorded version of the famous nursery rhyme dates from 1790 and comes from Massachusetts: Ring a ring a rosie A bottle full of posie, All the girls in our town Ring for little Josie There is no better Josie in the whole world of a scarlet rose (translated by Elena Poletskaya).).

There are French, German and even Gaelic variants. Some have a second verse where everyone gets up again; others mention wedding bells, buckets of water, birds, bell towers, Jackies, Gills, and other familiar images of nursery rhymes and counting rhymes.

Another, somewhat more plausible theory links the rhyme to a popular game in which all participants stand in a circle: the main element of the "holiday games" that arose in the XNUMXth century in Protestant communities in England and America, where dancing was strictly forbidden.

"Ring-a-ring o'roses" remains the most beloved "group game" in the UK to this day.

In his collection Nursery Rhymes and Tales (1924), Henry Bett is of the opinion that the age of this poem should be "measured in millennia, or rather, a poem is so great that it simply cannot be measured by anything."

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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