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Taboo against naming the dead
The taboo against naming the dead is a kind of taboo on the dead whereby the name of a recently deceased person, and any other words similar to it in sound, may not be uttered. It is observed by peoples so widely separated from each other as the Nenets of Siberia and the Toda of Southern India; the Mongols of Tartary and the Tuareg of the Sahara; the Ainu of Japan and the Akamba and Nandi of Eastern Africa; the Tinguian of the Philippines and the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands, of Borneo, of Madagascar, and of Tasmania.
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