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Thread #49672 Message #750668
Posted By: Clinton Hammond
18-Jul-02 - 05:14 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ring around the Rosy / Rosey
Subject: RE: Ring Around The Rosey's History??

Ashes were also thought to ward off the plague for a while... and so were carried around in the pockets...
At least that's what I read in one book on the Black Death
;-)