HP translations- the name 'Hogwarts'

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This reminds me of Monty Python a bit, Yes, a bit...

Sir Bedivere: How do you know she's a witch?

Peasant A: She has got a wart...

*snip for space*

Peasant B:She turned me into a newt

Sir Bedivere: A Newt?

Peasant B: (sheepishly) I got better...

What about all the references in Disney's The Sword and the Stone to 
the Wart, Merlin's affectionate name for Arthur?

Amy

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> 
> Yep, it's as rough as it sounds. (from a English English speaker) 
> Image: hmmm something hairy, grunty, smelly, muddy and generally 
> fairly ugly.  The German is a literal translation, I think.  
But,Hog, 
> to me, conjours pictures of wild boar rather than domestic pigs. 
My 
> German is not good enough to know whether the same distinction 
> applies to the word Schweine.
> 
> Warts, for anyone unfamiliar with the word, these are the small 
> raised growths of hard skin often found on the hands, and which 
are 
> caused by a virus I think.  Anyway, to me the word always conjours 
> images of Oliver Cromwell, the first Protector, who signed the 
death 
> warrant for King Charles I and led the Parliamentarians in the 
> English Civil War of the 1660's, because he famously had warts on 
his 
> nose.  Yes he established the first democracy, but he later got a 
bit 
> mired down in the rampant politics of the period, a good guy with 
> unfortunate facial disfigurements and a bit of power streak.  But 
I 
> digress, warts is also a common feature asigned to witches in 
> folklore, and along with moles (the brown body markings not the 
> digging variety) were sometimes considered in the witch hunt era, 
> (16th & 17th Century) to be nipples on which the devil sucked. If 
you 
> were named as a witch by someone, you were examined to see if you 
had 
> these markings (moles or warts)on your body, if so, you were 
doomed 
> to the ducking stool (strapped to a chair and lowered into the 
river -
>  if you survived you were obviously a witch with magic powers, if 
you 
> died, well, they got it wrong, you were obviously innocent, but oh 
> dear never mind, God would pardon you) or burnt at the stake.  I 
> would recommend the very famous play, The Crucible, which is about 
> the Salem witches (I think? no doubt our American friends will put 
me 
> right) and was actually written at the time of the McCarthy trials.
> 
> Hope that goes someway to answering your query
> Saraquel