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I’m working on developing the antagonist for the next chapter of my story, an Appalachian mountain witch born with a clubfoot. I decided that, rather than making her Scotch-Irish, she should be of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage, Amish to be specific. So, I started looking into popular Amish surnames in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It turns out the most common name in the region is Stoltzfus, which translates to “proud foot.” Ok. My first thought, of course, was the scene in The Fellowship of the Ring, when the one hobbit shouts “Proudfeet!” My second thought though, I can’t really name a woman marked as belonging to the devil because of a clubfoot, Proudfoot… or can I?
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