![]() The Great Plague explanation of the mid-20th century ![]() Again in 1898, sneezing was then noted to be indicative of many superstitious and supernatural beliefs across differing cultures. ![]() Variations, especially more literal ones, were identified and noted with the literal falling down that would sever the connections to the game-rhyme. Īccording to Games and Songs of American Children, published in 1883, the "rosie" was a reference to the French word for rose tree and the children would dance and stoop to the person in the center. In 1892, the American writer, Eugene Field wrote a poem titled Teeny-Weeny that specifically referred to fay folk playing ring-a-rosie. Another suggestion is more literal, that it was making a "ring" around the roses and bowing with the "all fall down" as a curtsy. The theory states that it is in reference to Pagan myths and cited a passage which states, "Gifted children of fortune have the power to laugh roses, as Freyja wept gold." It claimed the first instance to be indicative of pagan beings of light. In 1898, A Dictionary of British Folklore contained the belief that an explanation of the game was of pagan origin, based on the Sheffield Glossary comparison of Jacob Grimm's Deutsche Mythologie. Folklore scholars, however, regard the Great Plague explanation, that has been the most common since the mid-20th century, as baseless. The origins and meanings of the game have long been unknown and subject to speculation. Leslie Brooke (1862–1940) for "All Tumble Down" from Anon, Ring O' Roses (1922)
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