Name tabu: prohibition against uttering the name of a person or thing

Motif

Name tabu: prohibition against uttering the name of a person or thing.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Name tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C430

Scholars’ trail — 12references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

Welshibid. 100
SwissJegerlehner Oberwallis 310 No. 29
French CanadianBarbeau JAFL XXIX 17. – Jamaica Negro: Beckwith MAFLS XVII *263 No. 66, *277 No. 89. – Africa (Bushman): Bleek and Lloyd 101, (Vai): Ellis 257 No. 52, (A'Kikuyu): Barrett 42.
general *Types 400, 500
general *BP I 495
general *Clodd Tom-Tit-Tot, The Magic of Names
general Hdwb. d. Abergl. IX Nachträge 809
general *Nyrop Navnets Magt
general *Chauvin VI 106 No. 270
general *Fb "navn" II 675b, 676a
general Frazer Golden Bough XII 383 s. v. "names". – Irish: Cross, MacCulloch Celtic 70
general English-Scottish: Child V 489 s. v. "naming"

Within the index

6 finer motifs beneath it

Tabu: uttering name of god (or gods)Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature Tabu: uttering name of malevolent creature (Eumenides). To avoid the evil results of naming these creatures other names are substituted. The Furies are spoken of as Eumenides; rats and mice as "the large" and "the small"Tabu: uttering relative's name Tabu: disclosing own identity. A supernatural person must not tell who he is Tabu: giving child a name lest it die early

Travels with

Transformation by breaking name tabu. (Cf. C430.)

wander