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What does Percival mean?

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  1. Lucifer
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    Percival was the name of an illiterate person who desired to become a knight of King Arthur. He was neither attractive or eligible for the post. Hence all the people teased and scolded him. In the poem, Custard is called Percival, because all the animals thought that he is coward and thus not a true dragon.

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