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The future would continue like a nursery rhyme. Embedded in everyone that had English speaking ancestors had this inscribed in them: ring around the rosy pocke
by ohiovr 4y ago
The future would continue like a nursery rhyme. Embedded in everyone that had English speaking ancestors had this inscribed in them:
ring around the rosy
pocket full of posy
ashes
ashes
we all fall down
The inscription date was 538 ad, the second year of the plague of Justinian and the installment of the Biship of Rome.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoOddly enough, that's a similar idea to a plot point in anime called Dr.Stone. https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales https://dr-stone.fandom.com/wiki/100_Tales
- jhugo 4y agoThere's no record of that rhyme earlier than the 19th century. Also, the association of it with any kind of plague is a modern invention. Usually association with the Great Plague is claimed, but no writing about the rhyme from before WWII makes any mention of a plague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Great_Plague_explanation_of_the_mid-20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_a_Ring_o%27_Roses#The_Gre...