Person obnoxious for his sins spoken of as "the other" — Mythoi

Motif

Person obnoxious for his sins spoken of as "the other".

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Name tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C433.1

Filed across the traditions

Jewish Neuman. Krappe "L'autre" The French Review XVII (1944) 145ff.

Within the index

Filed under 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".

Filed beside it

Dangerous animals not to be named

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