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- Tabu: uttering secrets. C420
- Tabu: uttering secret overheard. C420.3
- Tabu: uttering secrets heard from spirits. C423.4
- Tabu: uttering secrets – miscellaneous. C429
- Name tabu: prohibition against uttering the name of a person or thing. C430
- Tabu: uttering name of god (or gods). C431
- Tabu: uttering name of supernatural creature. C432
- 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". C433
- Tabu: uttering relative's name. C435
- Tabu: uttering spouse's name. C435.1
- Tabu: uttering name of supernatural wife. C435.1.1
- Tabu: uttering name of other close relations. C435.2
- Tabu: uttering name of sister-in-law. C435.2.1
- Tabu: listening to fluttering of birds after sunset. C885.1
- Magic results from uttering powerful name. D1766.7
- Test of cleverness: uttering three wise words. Youths called on to do so display by their answers extraordinary powers of deduction. H505
- Test of cleverness: uttering three truths. H505.1
- Prayer over the underdone hen. A guest is seen uttering a prayer before an underdone hen at the table. "She must be a goddess turned into a hen, for she has been over the fire and spared." J1342
- Saint lives for 300 (100?) years without eating food or uttering evil. V229.2.12.2
- The humor of stuttering. X135