Apparently it isn't common knowledge. Lol

And for what it's worth, no one knows the entire history of it. That was my point regarding how dumb the originality debates are. For all anyone knows, the "children's" version may actually be closer to the original oral tradition.

You ever do the long line of whispers game as a kid?

It doesn't matter anyway. Old stories don't dictate reality, regardless of how they are told or the conclusions that come from them. Children should be taught to investigate reality using tools like science, psychology, and philosophy vs stories. That's the actual problem, in my opinion. You can NOT tell your kids Santa is real or that Robin stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but that alone doesn't actually equip them for life on earth as a rational being. I never see anything fruitful come of these debates. No one ever gets to the root issues.