Hinkypunks was A varied post on Latin

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No: HPFGUIDX 3126

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> 
wrote:

> For all that, there are a few that have me stumped. For example, I 
> know that a hinkeypunk shows up in the Dungeons and Dragons Monster 
> Manual, so JKR didn't invent it. But did she find it somewhere else? 

An Enclycopedia of Fairies by Katherine Briggs has this entry:
Hinky-Punk. One of the many names for WILL O' THE WISP. It occurs on 
the Somerset-Devon borders. In appearance it seems to be something like 
the Highland DIREACH, for it was described to Ruth Tongue by members of 
the Dulverton Women's Institute as having 'one leg and a light, and led 
you into bogs'.
	(the caps indicate cross-references)
Sorry it took so long to respond to this post, I had to take a day off 
from the list. (If Snape is indeed Jewish as some critics think, I am 
sure his Kol Nidre prayers were particularly fervent)
Pippin