We all seem to recall that nursery rhyme, "Ring around the rosies" and reciting: "husha, husha, we all fall down." I since learned many years later that it is really: "ashes, ashes, we all fall down." The ashes were in reference to the custom of burning the victims and their clothes to prevent the spread of Bubonic Plague (marked by the "rosies") in 14th century England. The posies were for their funerals when they suffered that dreaded disease. The entire rhyme is at: http://www.geocities.com/jus4pookie/rosies.html Various other formas and explanations are offered at: http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
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