Amelia Huw Morgan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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And I think that's probably what happened.
It was about the symbol that would kind of appear on your arm around the kind of like a ring of roses.
This was supposed to kind of keep you safe.
So you were supposed to, you know, have a pocket full of posies and the smell would help you.
or they would be there to kind of support you in your time of need when you were not very well, you know, how people bring each other flowers when they're not very well and that sort of thing.
And then the sneezing was often seen as a symptom.
And, you know, they're kind of basing it all on this idea.
But actually, the version that we know and the version that I've just recited is a much later version in many respects of a story and a nursery rhyme that was told in many different ways from in many different versions across the globe.
And actually, as with any folk tale or any fairy tale, there is no correct answer.
There's no right.
And it's often actually the story and the tale that get passed on and passed through and down generations and misheard and misinterpreted or reinterpreted that then become what we then know as our story.
So it's interesting because it's quite hard to actually say where the earliest versions of it are from because of the tales not being collected until, you know, sort of the kind of 19th century and 20th century when folklorists and, you know, so we start with the Brothers Grimm, for example, collecting fairy tales and,
You know, there are collections in France of those kind of things.
And actually nursery rhymes were sort of later to be kind of picked up on as something that you would collect.
And this is why when we look at that kind of golden era of childhood that was seen as the kind of Victorian time, we start to see these things being written down and formalised as a way of giving them on as a kind of educational and as a part of kind of cultural life.
But what we look at and what we know from the collections that are there
is that it originated much more likely in Europe and therefore the plague myth didn't kind of present itself until after the Second World War.
And actually from all the reading and everything that I've done, there's no actual moment that you can really pinpoint this is when it started, but you can kind of start to imagine why.
When you started to write things down, you started to give them a place.
People are playing those things out within their lives.
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