"Ring Around the Rosie"

 

London Bridge is Falling Down

 LAKE HAVASU CITY -London Bridge is a bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. When it was built in the 1830s, it spanned the River Thames in London, England. In 1968, the bridge was purchased from the City of London by Robert P. McCulloch. The London Bridge is rumored to be haunted. For years, visitors have claimed sightings of a British police bobby patrolling the bridge and a woman in black roaming the night. Multiple sets of human remains were found under the second London Bridge (1871-1967) while it was being dismantled in the 1960s. These included the remains of children. has led to the suggestion that the lyrics of the folk song "London Bridge Is Falling Down" Child sacrifice/immurement - Alice Bertha Gomme (later Lady Gomme) put forward the hypothesis that the song refers to the burying, perhaps alive, of children in the foundations of the bridge..... This theory was repeated by Iona and Peter Opie. London Bridge is falling down, According to The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, similar rhymes have been discovered across Europe in places such as Germany’s “Die Magdeburger Brück,” Denmark’s “Knippelsbro Går Op og Ned,” and France’s “pont chus.” Immurement as a practice:

Immurement was a form of punishment or sacrifice where a person was walled up in a room with no exit, and left to die from starvation or dehydration. It was believed that immuring someone could bring stability to structures like bridges. Immurement (from Latin "immurus", meaning " wall in" or "enwall"), immuration or live entombment is a historical form of imprisonment, generally until death, in which someone is/was placed in an enclosed space with the opening walled off. Immurement has been used as a punishment and as a form of human sacrifice. As a punishment, live entombment was largely used on members of clergy (monks, nuns and ancient Rome's Vestal Virgins for example) and others whose blood was not allowed to be spilled according to custom and or law. Also in Mongolia, women who were accused of adultery were often immured in crates which had a holes for the head and one arm to poke through. The latest documented case of immurement as a form of execution occurred in 1906 in Morocco. The one walled up in this case was a Serial killer named Mohammed Mesfewi who was originally sentenced to crucifixion before foreign dignitaries talked the Moroccan government out of crucifying Mohammed. As a form of human sacrifice, live entombment was intended to ensure that buildings and bridges remained standing. It was thought that immuring living people in this manner would bring good luck to the structure. The song ''London Bridge is Falling Down'' may be about such sacrificial entombment. Usually the entombed victim would be left to dehydrate and starve to death, but sometimes they were fed regularly. In the latter case, immurement was more life imprisonment than a form of execution. There have been historical and fictional accounts of people being walled in alive. One story of fictional immuration is in the story The Cask of Armontillado by Edgar Allen Poe.


Falling down, falling down.


London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.

Off to prison you must go,
You must go, you must go;
Off to prison you must go,
My fair lady.

H.H. Holmes (The Devil in the white city)

 H.H. Holmes (The Devil in the white city) Is a good read!

Being from the Chicago area we use to go on field trips here all the time. My Grandpa grew up there told me all about the tunnels under Chicago he did the electricity and part time Taxi cab driver down town.

I always thought it was missing some history we were never taught about some of us growing up, it use to bother me, even at a young age. I even saw the Titanic relics, they put on display real items, and it just my heart sad.

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer who had a hotel / Maze / "Murder Castle"active during The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. They were going to make a film with Leonardo DiCaprio. I think I know why not...

But Hollywood is strictive & deceiving, and changes the books, they did that with Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.

Although the book was good. Seems strange all these were constructed in about 2 years, then shown and gone, all tore down.

They say they used something diffrent to build these building but the Museum is still there to this day.

They also burned the castle downs and H.H.Holmes He spent nearly a decade hiring and firing builders to add pieces to his house that included pipes for pumping gas into bedrooms, a room built specifically to suffocate people, and a murder basement where he would strip the skin from his victims. Then sell the skeletons for museum of medical students.

It was burnt while he was serving his sentencing, and he crused all the people who caught him. Say a lot died strange deaths. It's an interesting story. The nursery rhyme "London Bridge is Falling Down" likely refers to the Viking destruction of London Bridge in 1014 by Olaf II of Norway. This event, part of a Danish invasion led by King Sweyn, involved pulling down the bridge to impede the invaders. While the rhyme is a playful rendition of this historical event, it's also been interpreted through various lenses, including the cycle of life and death, pagan rituals, and structural failures of the bridge itself.