Citations:avunculicide

English citations of avunculicide

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• 1866, James Payn (January 6, 1866). "Mirk Abbey." Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts 4 (106): 10.:

  'Yes,' cried my uncle; 'and I can hardly pull my weight; besides which, the training would kill me; so, if you persist in your refusal, Bob, you will be guilty of avunculicide.'

• 1956, William A. Lessa (January-March, 1956). "Oedipus-Type Tales in Oceania." The Journal of American Folklore, 69 (271): 66.:

  The idea of parricide should be defined elastically enough not only to include avunculicide but to make it optional whether the youth or his father takes the initiative in expressing the antagonism between them.

• 1968,Vladimir Nabokov. King, Queen, Knave: a novel. New York: McGraw Hill. p. 138.:

  In those days— which as a very old and very sick man, guilty of worse sins than avunculicide, he remembered with a grin of contempt— young Franz was oblivious to the corrosive probity of his pleasant daydreams about Dreyer's dropping dead.

• 1984, Cathy N. Davidson. The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable. University of Nebraska Press. →ISBN. pp. 58-59.:

  At the same time, it is hard to take seriously the tall-tale grotesqueries whereby the accused matricide perpetrated an earlier, shall we say, avunculicide—the uncle, hamstrung and hung in a bag from a tree, was battered to death by a legendary fighting ram.

• 1995, Lowell Edmunds, Alan Dundes, editors, Oedipus: A Folklore Casebook, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 64:

  The idea of parricide should be defined elastically enough not only to include avunculicide but to make it optional whether the youth or his father takes the initiative in expressing the antagonism between them. In the story from New Guinea, there is sexual jealousy between a father and son, and the father eventually kills the son instead of the other way around. In the Trukese story, we have an attempt at nepoticide, for the uncle tries to kill his nephew.

• 1999, Dave Winter. Pakistan Handbook. Footprint Handbooks. →ISBN. p. 464.:

  Continually fought over by the rulers of both Chitral and Gilgit, the history of the rulers of Yasin reads like a catalogue of patricide, fratricide, and avunculicide.

• 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

  Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).