Fw: [Dixielandjazz] Ashes

[Fred Spencer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Spencer" <drjz at bealenet.com>
To: <Andy.Ling at Quantel.Com>
Cc: <dixieland at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ashes


> Dear Andy,
> How true, the nursery rhyme is a myth.Unless you are interested in plague, 
> please delete.The 1347-1348 pandemic abolished the feudal system because
> the few remaining workers realised their power. Two epidemics of mental 
> disorder occurred .The "flagellants"
> travelled throughout Europe flogging each other in penitence, and Jews 
> were shamefully persecuted as being responsible for the pandemic. A few 
> cases of plague now occur annually in the western US as humans intrude on 
> the wild natural cycle of plague in the rodent-flea-rodent cycle. The 
> infected mice that seem to have escaped in New Jersey today are unlikely 
> to produce any human cases--relax! Cheers.
> Fred
> Original Message ----- 
> From: <Andy.Ling at Quantel.Com>
> To: <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Ashes
>
>
>> Larry Walton (among others) said about Ring around the roses :-
>>
>>> Actually the poem is very old and dates to the middle ages.  The poem as
>> to
>>> do with the black death that killed a quarter of the population.
>>>
>>
>> This is actually an urban legend. The true origins are not completely
>> clear, but the black death is not involved. For a fuller explanation
>> see :-
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
>>
>> Andy Ling
>>
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