Tides of bodies lie in my wake, I raze their psyche until they break. Children have sung of my destruction and death, I laugh as they take their last dying breath. With potions and flowers they tried to stop my killing spree, but I continued to kill with bountiful glee.
Think you have it? The answer is below.
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Answer: The plague / Black Death ('Ring Around the Rosie' — the sung destruction; posies the flowers)
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📖 The answer, explained
The trick here is that every grim image is dressed up as something almost playful, which is exactly how the plague has survived in memory — tucked inside a children's rhyme. The "tides of bodies" and broken psyches point to mass death and the terror it left behind, while "children have sung of my destruction" nods directly to Ring Around the Rosie, a nursery rhyme folk tradition links to plague burials and ash. The "potions and flowers" are the posies people carried, believing sweet-smelling herbs could ward off disease. None of it worked, hence the killer's "bountiful glee." The riddle's cleverness is in making a nursery rhyme the key witness, turning something children chant on playgrounds into a quiet historical echo of catastrophe.
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