Among the Haussas “the first-born son is never called by his parents by his name; indeed they will not even speak with him if other people are present. The same rule holds good of the first husband and the first wife.”(1266) In antiquity Ionian women would not call their husbands by their names.(1267) While the rites of Ceres were being performed in Rome, no one might name a father or a daughter.(1268) Among the South Slavs at the present day husbands and wives will not mention each other’s names, and a young wife may not call any of her housemates by their true names; she must invent or at least adopt other names for them.(1269) A Kirghiz woman dares not pronounce the names of the older relations of her husband, nor even use words which resemble them in sound. For example, if one of these relations is called Shepherd, she may not speak of sheep, but must call them “the bleating ones”; if his name is Lamb, she must refer to lambs as “the young of the bleating ones.”(1270) After marriage an Aino wife may not mention her husband’s name; to do so would be deemed equivalent to killing him.(1271) Among the Sgaus, a Karen tribe of Burma, children never mention their parents’ names.(1272) A Toda man may not utter the names of his mother’s brother, his grandfather and grandmother, his wife’s mother, and of the man from whom he has received his wife, who is usually the wife’s father. All these names are tabooed to him in the lifetime of the persons who bear them, and after death the prohibitions are not only maintained but extended.(1273) In southern India wives believe that to tell their husband’s name or to pronounce it even in a dream would bring him to an untimely end. Further, they may not mention the names of their parents, their parents-in-law, and their brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.(1274) Among the Ojebways husbands and wives never mention each other’s names;(1275) among the Omahas a man and his father-in-law and mother-in-law will on no account utter each other’s names in company.(1276) A Dacota “is not allowed to address or to look towards his wife’s mother, especially, and the woman is shut off from familiar intercourse with her husband’s father and others, and etiquette prohibits them from speaking the names of their relatives by marriage.” “None of their customs,” adds the same writer, “is more tenacious of life than this; and no family law is more binding.”(1277) In the Nishinam tribe of California “a husband never calls his wife by name on any account, and it is said that divorces have been produced by no other provocation than that.”(1278)