Lodowicke Muggleton as DNB Life of the Day/etymology of Ludovic

justcarol67 justcarol67 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 15 19:38:47 UTC 2007


Carol earlier:
>
> Hail, fellow Muggles! I thought you might be interested in knowing
that the New Dictionary of National Biography's Life of the Day for
March 14 is Lodowicke Muggleton, a name that's almost a cross between
Ludovic (Bagman) and Muggle. Maybe JKR read about Muggleton at some
point and stowed up that name in her subconscious mind?
<snip>
> The link for the Lodowicke Muggleton article, which is only good for
today [make that yesterday], is 
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.html
> 
> For the rest of the week, you can find the entry under Lives of the
> Week at http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
> 
> For what it's worth.
> 
> Carol, who thinks that the name Lodowicke Muggleton is more likely
to be a coincidence than a connection but finds it interesting, anyway
>

Carol again:

I forgot to mention that Muggleton was a founder of a group of
religious dissenters called the Muggletonians, who believed, among
other things, that witchcraft, like the devil, was a product of the
human imagination.

Carol, who finds it interesting that *Muggle*ton didn't believe in witches





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