MAGIC WORDS Origins: These words were coined by William Shakespeare and appear in his play Hamlet, meaning in context "without proper ceremony."54 In Literature: • "I loved to go to her in the thick of the Adriatic winter when, in a huggermugger of fogs, the market seemed a tiny kingdom in the sky." -- Marlena De Blasi, A Thousand Days in Venice (2002) • "[T]he dark superstition and medieval hugger-mugger of the romantic [architectural] styles." -- James Howard Kunstler, Geography of Nowhere (199 ) 54 Folger Shakespeare Library, Hamlet (1992)