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"I've caught the mumblemumps! And it's so terribly boring, lying here in bed all day with nothing to do."
Katie Bell[src]

The mumblemumps was a magical disease. It possibly caused the sick person to mumble and their face and neck to swell. Katie Bell got the mumblemumps in 1992, as such, she was frequently seen in the Hospital Wing. One possible way to treat it is to rest, as Katie was put to bed and was very bored of having nothing to do.[1]

Etymology[]

"To mumble" is "to fail to articulate".[2] "Mumps" is the vulgar name of epidemic parotitis, a contagious disease mostly occurring in childhood, which commonly causes a painful swelling of the parotid glands.[3]

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