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"...as a boys name. In psychology heffalumps have been used as an example of an animal which exists in thoughts but not in reality..." What a sheltered life I've led, never to have been introduced to a boy or man whose given name was Heffalump. Nor have I read of heffalumps treated in books, even of pop psychology. Wetman 21:44, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

They surprised me too - but both are true, I found those out by searching JSTOR (the academic journal archive) for "heffalump" and those were the results. --Imran

Heffalump is also used in other contexts including lie algebra : I have just searched in http://www.altavista.com . Searching for "lie algebra" got 51000 results. But searching for heffalump "lie algebra" or heffalumps "lie algebra" got ALSOLUTE ZERO results except this Wikipedia page. Note that Lie algebra does not mean "the algebra of untruths or of hoaxes", but is named after someone called Sophus Lie. This is a hoax. Anthony Appleyard 23:22, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Probably from http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2000/1184/content.ps.gz but only used as an example there. Not really related.