Who killed Cock Robin?
Correct answer: Sparrow
InsatiableGoal55358
Me either...strange rhyme for a child. But so is ring around the Posey...that's about the Black Plague!
Montana Lady
drinknthink, yes, but during the Black Plague posies were also used to cover the smell of the dead bodies, which were then burned to keep yhe illness from spreading. . .thus the nursery rhyme.
JustBreath
Ring around the rosies (refers to the spots one got with the plague)
Pocket full of posies (flowers were used due to the stench of the many bodies from the plague)
Ashes, ashes we all fall down ( they burned the bodies to help lesson the spread of the "black death")
Hoplea
Most rhymes where morbid & scary I don't know why we took them and made them for children. smh
CasualBear87638
I've never heard of this rhyme... a little creepy
nimblemoon
This starts out..."Will you walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly."
Player #3235803
InsatiableGoal55358, it isn't ring around the posey,it's ring around the roses a pocket full of poseys,attishoo,attishoo we all fall down.
Player SQinfoNUTS
Montana Lady, about the black plague here's a fun fact and there aren't many fun facts about the Black Plague. the very less delightful symptom that a person experienced before death what's a fit of sneezing. Hence the expression God bless you when someone sneezes. I checked the several cardiologist about this one
drinknthink
InsatiableGoal55358, Ring around the Rosey. a pocket full of posies. Posies were flowers used to cover humans oder, since they didn't have deoderant. woman put the flowers in the end of their sleeves to try to cover their body odor!
Major luck
it was known as the 'black death' or 'plague' not the black plague
Peg
InsatiableGoal55358, I heard that is a myth about the black death
Melode
we used to sing this NURSURY RHYME IN SCHOOL BUT NEVER KNEW THE MEANING.
Angel
In my old nursery rhyme book, there are 13 verses. Second is Who saw him die? I said the fly. Wth my little eye, I saw him die.
Catmad
In the UK its ring a ring a rosies, a pocket full of posies. Trust the USA to change it :)
Player #25874027
Krisskass,
It is a sneeze
ida
InsatiableGoal55358, in older times the king would have ppl killed 4 speaking out so nursery were a way to speak out
Player Eldehem
drinknthink, Sorry, you're wrong in that assertion. "Ring o roses" pertains to the rash which appeared in a circular pattern, followed by high temperature, coughing and sneezing, then loss of smell, then usually death. All sounds a bit worrying when you put that second paragraph into a modern day setting!
Player Eldehem
JustBreath, In the UK its:"a-tishoo, at-tishoo we all fall down". Sneezing was one of the last symptoms prior to death. You are correct with the other meanings though 🙂
keerthi
I don't know the meaning till now
Player #27065227
nimblemoon, that is a completely different poem. this starts, who killed cocktails robin? I said the fly with my little eye....etc
Player #22907343
JustBreath, it's not ashes,ashes we all fall down. It's atishoo,atishoo we all fall down. atishoo being sneezing, a symptom of the plague and the falling down as in death.
nc
InsatiableGoal55358, Ring around the rosie; pocket full of posies.
Nannad
JustBreath, atishoo atishoo.... is from the sneezing caused before death, ashes were after death.....
bluenoser
InsatiableGoal55358, ashes were the airborne remnants of the burned dead
TDC
Krisskass, sneezing
ChampionNymph37634
When I read this question, a vague memory of it came to mind from when I heard it as a child. How, or in what context I came to hear it, is a mystery. I agree that it's sorta morbid.
Spartacus
bad question
UnfilledInertia8
Player #3235803, Why not get back to question
UnfilledInertia8
johnwintergreen, I have heard this before also
IcyTorch10866
many errors in these comments, especially spelling!
KAP
Player SQinfoNUTS,
Makes sense as the rhyme continues" atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down".
Player #8825165
InsatiableGoal55358, Rosey not Posey!
Player #7147470
Player SQinfoNUTS, a tish u, atish u, we all fall down
Harry Ceeword
Hunt Nelson44, hi Hunt. I'll chat with you.
Player #3532789
johnwintergreen, I never knew that!
Player #3532789
Hoplea, so were cartoons!!!
~!Tizzy53!~
InsatiableGoal55358, Ring a ring a roses; a pocketful of posies; atishoo, atishoo, all fall down.
SQinfoNUTS
I think there's some symbolism here. I sure like to get to the bottom of this one. Any ideas?
NEXUS6
Player #3235803, ashes ashes because they burnt the bodies. smarty-pants