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TossTheDice

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Forgive me if this has been answered somewhere. Does anyone know where the expression "blood and ashes" comes from? I've been looking since I started reading WoT a few years ago and haven't had any luck. I understand "bloody" and "flaming" as being mainly British slang, but I can't find an origin for blood and ashes. Is it something RJ just made up or is it actually used somewhere in the world?

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i know ring around the rosies was associated with the plague

 

Ring around the Rosie had nothing to do with the plague. It's just a nonsense nursery rhyme which someone recently decided to interpret associations with the plague.

 

The idea that it had to do with the plague is nothing more than urban legend, and its pervasiveness is really irritating. So go tell your friends, there's no interesting story to be found in that rhyme!

 

http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm

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