"The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosey" is a rhyme about
the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red
circular sores ("Ring around the rosey"), these sores would
smell very badly so common folks would put flowers on their
bodies somewhere (inconspicuously), so that it would cover
the smell of the sores ("a pocket full of posies"). Further-
more, people who died from the plague would be burned so as
to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("ashes, ashes,
we all fall down"). "
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