REal life muggles

[Vivienne O'Regan]

No: HPFGUIDX 5110

On Fri, 03 Nov 2000 21:36:02 -0600  Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at attglobal.net>

Amanda Lewanski wrote:

> HarryPotterJrs at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Talking about Witchcraft and Wicca, for the record, we have always
spoke of
> > non-witchy folks as Mundanes.
>
> In my medieval recreation group, the Society for Creative Anachronism,
we talk of
> non-participants as mundanes (or used to; it's being discouraged by
the
> image-conscious). It was founded in 1966; I wonder if the usage bled
over from
> Wicca, or vice versa? Hmmm.

>Science fiction/fantasy fans use the term, too.  I hear it a lot at
conventions.
>It's kind of comic, really: a nicely dressed woman, there at the hotel
for a
>chiropractor's convention, will get on the elevator with a Klingon in
full regalia.
>She'll give him the once over, raise an eyebrow, and get off at her
floor.  And the
>Klingon will turn to the Romulan standing beside him and say
witheringly: "Those
>mundanes just don't understand."

I think crossover of the term is also due to the overlap of personnel
between these particular 'worlds'. I have hardly ever met a
pagan/magical type who was not also into SF/F and I understand that the
SCA also attracted its share of magical folk.

In a sense the term 'mundanes' is actually quite apt for folks who are
primarily
focused upon the mundane plane/world.


Vivienne