Momspsycho@aol.com
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:40:49 EST
In a message dated 11/11/99 12:36:11 PM, blumenidiot@21stcentury.net
writes:
<< A bigger mystery might be Ring around the Rosies.
Was a cult suicide or a mass murderer? >>
What I have heard about ring around the rosie is that it was
that it came about during an epidemic of roseola (?) a
childhood disease. Children would die from it very
easily...so in the rhyme...when the children fell...it was
because they had died.
(this was recently re-enacted and explained at a local park
here in Mass...where I guess the epidemic was quite rampant)
Jess
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