[HPforGrownups] Re: I need a word translated!

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 17886

Andrea wrote:
> 
> --- meckelburg at foni.net wrote:
> > can someone, who has both the English and the German
> > Version please help me! in the german PoA there are
> > creatures called Hinkepanks. Is the name the same in
> > English? It is the only book I don't have in both
> > languages.
> 
> The word in English in "Hinkypuck".  I have no idea
> where it comes from.  I'm not sure if it's one of the
> creatures JKR made up, or if it was based off a
> legend.  Anyone know?

It's a creature from folklore.  Here's the relevant entry from
Katharine Briggs' AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FAIRIES:


	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'.

Grindylows are also in there.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>