Humpty Dumpty is the main character of one of our most well-known nursery rhymes, but some people have been left stunned by a new revelation.
The popular children's song has been sung all over the UK for generations, and now people have taken to social media to claim they are "haunted" after finding out, that despite recent depictions, there is not any evidence that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
Nobody knows who created the rhyme, but the character has been depicted across media as an egg, stretching all the way back to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland sequel published in 1871, the Mirror reports.
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However, the lyrics make no mention of an egg at all. In case you need a reminder, here they are:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
A writer, Holly Bourne, recently took to Twitter to ask why Humpty Dumpty is perceived to be an egg. She said: "Who decided Humpty Dumpty was an egg? Its not in the lyrics, and deciding he's a giant egg is quite a random leap for someone to make, and everyone else being like, 'yeah, a giant egg on a wall. Of course".
And she's not the only one who has been wondering. One Twitter user said: "This has been haunting me for years", while a second said: "This has bugged me for a long time!!"
One reply said: "This is genuinely the first time I've realised he's not explicitly an egg", while a second said: "Oh my goodness how have I never realised this?"
Some historians believe Humpty Dumpty represents King Richard III, while an 18th century text refers to a "Humpty Dumpty" as meaning a clumsy person of either sex.
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