Avunculicide

Avunculicide is the act of killing an uncle.[1] The word can also refer to someone who commits such an act. The term is derived from the Latin words avunculus meaning "maternal uncle" and caedere meaning "to cut or kill". Edmunds suggests that in mythology avunculicide is a substitute for parricide.[2] The killing of a nephew is a nepoticide.[1][2]

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In fiction

In gaming

In literature

Onscreen

In fanfiction

See also

Familial killing terms:
Non-familial killing terms from the same root:

References

  1. 1 2 3 Time Magazine: Nepoticide v. Avunculicide Retrieved 2009-06-06
  2. 1 2 Edmunds L. Oedipus: a folklore casebook. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 1995. p. 64. ISBN 0-299-14854-8.
  3. Bede (2008). The Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Oxford University Press: J. McClure and R. Collins. p. 222.
  4. Barbara Tuchman (1978). A Distant Mirror. New York: A.A.Knopf. p. 418.
  5. "1975: Saudi's King Faisal assassinated, BBC On this Day". BBC News. March 25, 1975.
  6. "The Royal Ark". royalark.net.
  7. Leona Toker. Nabokov. The Mystery of Literary Structure. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1989. Page 63. ISBN 0-8014-2211-6
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