Dangerous animals not to be named

Motif

Dangerous animals not to be named.

Tabu. · Speaking tabu. · Name tabu. · view the constellation · filed as C433.2

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed

Depth CommentaryTotem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics, Chapter IV

Scholars’ trail — 1reference

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.

Eskimo (Greenland)Rasmussen I 134, III 70.

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

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

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