A very bizarre question.

Why do the children's book on the nursery rhyme depict Humpty Dumpty as egg shaped, when the rhyme makes no attempt on describing Humpty dumpty whatsoever ?

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Mamapolo2016 · F

Phantome

@Mamapolo2016 Thanks you for that explanation. But I wonder where the eggshape came into it ?

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Phantome Maybe some soldier looked at the cannon and said,"Blimey! It shattered like hen fruit!"

Phantome

@Mamapolo2016 Theories are always valid, lol

SW-User

@Phantome Many of the early cannon were vase shaped instead of long cylinders. Close enough to an egg.

hartfire · 61-69

@Mamapolo2016
Sounds so plausible. Lots of old nursery rhymes, like "Ring-o-Ring-o-Rosie", date back to the Middle Ages. Maybe it was a way to make things less scary for kids. But if they seem like nonsense rhymes, do young kids really care?