Above left: Dorothy and the Munchkins. Note the mayor's large pocket watch. Above right: Part of the greenery in Munchkinland.
As already observed, the sin of greed is punished in circle 4 of Dante's Hell. Since this is one of the circles in which Munchkinland is located, the indication is that the Munchkins themselves represent some group of greedy persons.
Note in the left-hand screencap above, that the Mayor of Munchkinland wears green clothing; this links him to the green of Emerald City, which is where Satan resides (as observed in part 2, part of Emerald city is in the 9th circle of Hell); this suggests that the mayor is an emissary of Satan. Also, the fact that the Mayor wears a large pocket watch, suggests some sort of 'time for money' arrangement, and therefore, some kind of Faustian bargain. In fact, since the Mayor is an emissary of Satan, the indication is that he represents Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust.
If the word Munchkin is broken down by its syllables, the words 'munch kin' are obtained. According to the online MacMillan Dictionary, the word 'munch' means "to eat something using your teeth and jaws in a noisy way", and the word 'kin' means "all the people in your family." If we take "family" here as 'extended family', i.e., the family of Man, then going by these definitions, the Munchins are people who 'eat' other people, i.e., they are metaphorical cannibals.
The reason the Munchkins are so short is because they suffer from a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). According to the National Institutes of Health, both boys and girls with CAH will be tall as children but much shorter than normal as adults.[a] Symptoms of CAH can also include hermaphroditism. In a National Institutes of Health study, the most common cause of ambiguous genitalia in newborn patients was congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-OH deficiency.[b] According to the National Adrenal Diseases Foundation, "Non-classical CAH is among the most common genetic disorders, with Ashkenazi Jews having the highest prevalence."[c]
Today Ashkenazim constitute more than 80 percent of all the Jews in the world, vastly outnumbering Sephardic Jews.[d]
Even those suffering from non-classical CAH will be taller than normal as children and shorter than normal as adults.[e]
Non-classical CAH is a mild variant of one of the common causes of female pseudohermaphroditism.[f] As observed in part 1 of the analysis, pseudohermaphroditism is a condition in which the individual has a single chromosomal and gonadal sex but combines features of both sexes in the external genitalia, causing doubt as to the true sex.[g]
The implication of all of the above is that the Munchkins represent evil greedy hermaphroditic Jews.
a. National Institutes of Health Medline Plus Congenital adrenal hyperplasia page.
d. Zdravković D, Milenković T, Sedlecki K, Guć-Sćekić M, Rajić V, Banićević M. Causes of ambiguous external genitalia in neonates. [Abstract] Srp Arh Celok Lek. 2001 Mar-Apr; 129(3-4): 57-60.
c. National Adrenal Diseases Foundation Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) page.
d. 'Ashkenazi'. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2015. Web. 14 Sep. 2015. URL = http://www.britannica.com/topic/Ashkenazi.
e. Witchel, S.F. and Azziz, R. Nonclassic Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. [Article] Int J Pediatr Endocrinol. 2010; 2010: 625105.
f. Kukreti, P., Kandpal, M., Jiloha, R.C. Mistaken gender identity in non-classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia. [Article] Indian J Psychiatry. 2014 Apr-Jun; 56(2): 182–184.
g. 'pseudohermaphroditism'. Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2015. Web. 26 Sep. 2015. URL = http://www.britannica.com/science/pseudohermaphroditism.
