This is a new series by Totes KraKra
called the Lullaby Series
Happy Birthday to my niece Samantha. When asked if she wanted to find a geocache or place a geocache on her birthday she exuberantly said "Let's Place one", and so we did.
This is a series of caches placed near hotels so that traveling geocachers can easily find a geocache within walking distance of their hotel. Recently, I noticed that there are very few traditional geocaches near hotels in our area. We always enjoy going out and finding caches when we are traveling, and we especially enjoy opening up the app and seeing one near by.
Lyrics
Common British versions include:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies.
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down![2]
Common American versions include:
Ring around the rosie,
A pocket full of posies.
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down![2]
History of
Ring Around the Rosie
Though the origins are widely unknown, versions of this song and dance existed in Europe (including Swizterland, Netherlands, Germany). A similar song and lyrics were first noted in a German rhyme, printed in 1796. There are also many varations of the game where a group of children form a ring, dancing around in a circle, and then stoop or curtsies on the final line, in some variation they sneeze (A-tishoo). The slowest child to perform this action may face a penalty or become the "rosie" taking their place in the center of the ring.
Some versions replace the third line with "Red Bird Blue Bird" or "Green Grass-Yellow Grass," and the ending may be changed to "Sweet bread, rye bread, Squat!" An Indian version ends with: "Husha busha! / We all fall down!"
Evidence of children's round dances appears in continental paintings. For example, Hans Thoma's Kinderreigen (Children Dancing in a Ring) from 1872 depicts children dancing in an Alpine meadow,
Origins:
The rhyme has often been associated with the Great Plague of 1665 in England or with earlier outbreaks of the blubonic plague in England.
This interpretation has become widely accepted as an explanation for the rhyme’s meaning and has become standard in the United Kingdom. The song's description of a rosy rash, they allege, was a symptom of the plague, and the posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the disease. In some variations, the children sneeze or cough before falling down, and sneeizing or coughing was a final fatal symptom, and finally falling down dead. The line Ashes, Ashes in colonial versions of the rhyme has been claimed to refer variously to cremation of bodies, or the burning of victims' houses. Yet, this explanation emerged centuries after the plague, showing up after World War II and not earlier. While none of the European and 19th-century versions of the song do not match the plague interpretation.
In 1898, A Dictionary of British Folklore suggested that the game may have pagan origins, where dancing children form a "ring" around a rose bush and ending with "all fall down" as a kind of low curtsy.
Congratulations geo51 and Msgeo51 on FTF
