Editing Heffalump (section)

== Origins ==
Although the fifth chapter of ''[[Winnie-the-Pooh (book)|Winnie-the-Pooh]]'' is titled "In Which Piglet Meets a Heffalump", Piglet only actually meets a Heffalump in his imagination.<ref name=Rubinstein>{{cite book |last1=Rubinstein |first1=Michael |title=Modernism and Its Environments |date=2020 |publisher=Bloomsbury |page=110}}</ref> In this chapter, Pooh and [[Piglet (Winnie the Pooh)|Piglet]] bravely attempt to capture a heffalump in a clever trap; however, no heffalumps are ever caught, and indeed they never meet a heffalump in the course of the books. The sole appearance of heffalumps in the books is imagined, as Pooh tries to put himself to sleep:

{{Blockquote|text=[H]e tried counting Heffalumps [but] every Heffalump that he counted was making straight for a pot of Pooh's honey&nbsp;... [and] when the five hundred and eighty-seventh Heffalump was licking its jaws, and saying to itself, "Very good honey this, I don't know when I've tasted better", Pooh could bear it no longer.}}

In the third chapter of ''[[The House at Pooh Corner]]'', Pooh and Piglet fall into a similar trap (it is implied it was the same trap) and think that it was made by a Heffalump to catch them. Pooh and Piglet rehearse the conversation they will have when the heffalump comes, but Pooh falls asleep and when Piglet hears a voice, he panics and says the wrong thing. He is mortified when the voice turns out to be that of [[Christopher Robin]].