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"

Motif

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

Scholars’ trail — 6references

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.

Irish mythCross
EsthonianLoorits Grundzüge I 239–248
GreekFox 276. – African: Werner African 83.
general *Fb "rotte" III 83a, "mus" II 630b
general Güntert Von der Sprache der Götter und Geister (Halle, 1921) 16
general ibid. Kalypso 91

Within the index

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

2 finer motifs beneath it

Person obnoxious for his sins spoken of as "the other"Dangerous animals not to be named

Filed beside it

Tabu: uttering name of god (or gods)Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature 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

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