This Creepy Game is Anything but Child's Play
It's been part of the Mother Goose collection of folksongs since 1881, and this rhyme may have been recited as early as the 1790s all over Europe and has a pretty dark history. The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, swept Europe in the mid-1300s. It was likely spread by fleas that lived... Sign in to see full entry.