Ring Rosie facts
While investigating facts about Ring Rosie, I found out little known, but curios details like:
J.R.R Tolkien got the name for Samwise Gamgee from a doctor called Joseph Sampson Gamgee, the inventor of the 'Gamgee tissue', an absorbent gauze surgical dressing made from cotton wool. Hence, Tolkien named Samwise's wife in The Lord of the Rings books Rosie Cotton.
The commonly-held belief that the children's song "Ring Around the Rosy" is actually about the Black Plague is actually an urban legend from the 1950's. The song's lyrics likely have nothing to do with death or disease.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 8 of the best facts about Ring Rosie I managed to collect.
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Ring Around the Rosies" probably isn't about the Black Death after all and that interpretation isn't accepted by folklorists
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The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" is *not* about the Black Death / bubonic plague... they're actually just innocent lyrics in a children's game afterall.
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The nursery rhyme "Ring Around the Rosie" has an urban legend associated with it that claims the song is about the Great Plague of London, though these claims are baseless.
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The Ring around the Rosie story about the Black Death or Great Plague, is most likely a myth.
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The commonly-held belief that the children's song "Ring Around the Rosie" is about the Black Plague comes from an urban legend that can be traced back to the 1950's. The song's lyrics likely have nothing to do with death or disease.
