February 10, 2024 Challenge: Black Plague
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:15 pm
Ring Around the Rosie. A Pocketful of Posies. Ashes! Ashes! We ALL Fall Down.
Join us all month long as we post challenges focusing on the Circle and all of the Beautiful Flowers out there.
A new Blue Plate Special challenge is posted each Monday (sketch), Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Participants have until the 3rd of the following month to complete and post their creations in the Cookin' up Creations Gallery.
Prize will be a $20 Gift Certificate to their favorite online store (random drawing)
It has been said that the rhyme Ring Around the Rosie was about the Black Plague:
FitzGerald states emphatically that this rhyme arose from the Great Plague, an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague that affected London in the year 1665:
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague; the apparent whimsy being a foil for one of London’s most atavistic dreads (thanks to the Black Death). The fatalism of the rhyme is brutal: the roses are a euphemism for deadly rashes, the posies a supposed preventative measure; the a-tishoos pertain to sneezing symptoms, and the implication of everyone falling down is, well, death.
To read more go to: https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ ... nd-reason/
My challenge is to use:
black as most of your background to represent the Black Plague
sequins and/or brads on your page to represent the rashes
arrows to represent the spread of the plague
Join us all month long as we post challenges focusing on the Circle and all of the Beautiful Flowers out there.
A new Blue Plate Special challenge is posted each Monday (sketch), Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Participants have until the 3rd of the following month to complete and post their creations in the Cookin' up Creations Gallery.
Prize will be a $20 Gift Certificate to their favorite online store (random drawing)
It has been said that the rhyme Ring Around the Rosie was about the Black Plague:
FitzGerald states emphatically that this rhyme arose from the Great Plague, an outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague that affected London in the year 1665:
Ring-a-Ring-a-Roses is all about the Great Plague; the apparent whimsy being a foil for one of London’s most atavistic dreads (thanks to the Black Death). The fatalism of the rhyme is brutal: the roses are a euphemism for deadly rashes, the posies a supposed preventative measure; the a-tishoos pertain to sneezing symptoms, and the implication of everyone falling down is, well, death.
To read more go to: https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2014/07/ ... nd-reason/
My challenge is to use:
black as most of your background to represent the Black Plague
sequins and/or brads on your page to represent the rashes
arrows to represent the spread of the plague
