The Humpty Dumpty name pre-dates the image of an egg character that was created by Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass.
A popular theory says the rhyme may have originated by the story of a large cannon used by the Royalists in the English Civil War.
Humpty Dumpty was a term, probably with derogatory inferences, that was applied to large or oversized persons or objects.
The Humpty cannon allegedly fell off the wall that it was stationed upon, thanks to Parliamentary forces undermining it, and was severely damaged.
The falling cannon story became a metaphor for the Royalist leader, King Charles I, who was believed to be large sized himself. He lost the Civil war, and his head, therefore he proverbially “had a great fall”
The Humpty Dumpty name pre-dates the image of an egg character that was created by Lewis Carroll’s Through The Looking Glass.
A popular theory says the rhyme may have originated by the story of a large cannon used by the Royalists in the English Civil War.
Humpty Dumpty was a term, probably with derogatory inferences, that was applied to large or oversized persons or objects.
The Humpty cannon allegedly fell off the wall that it was stationed upon, thanks to Parliamentary forces undermining it, and was severely damaged.
The falling cannon story became a metaphor for the Royalist leader, King Charles I, who was believed to be large sized himself. He lost the Civil war, and his head, therefore he proverbially “had a great fall”
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My reading said that story was unconfirmed as the originating source. I did see it though