Parricide and other terms

[Cindy C.]

--- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> wrote:
> --- In HP4GU-FAQ at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:
> > Hmmm... my trouble is that murder within families does seem to 
be a 
> > theme in the books, and might later require an FAQ. 
> 
> Exactly. JKR really seems to be up on her mythology and legend. 
> 
> > 
> > If we stick with just 'Murder' as the keyword, whoever is 
editing is 
> > going to have to sort through all the non-family murders. Of 
which 
> > there are a lot.
> > 
> > I think that yes, we *are* going to have to assume that someone 
is 
> > going to have to read through the key word definitions first. If 
> > so, 'kin-slaying' is more immediately obvious than 'parricide' 
and 
> > more specific than 'murder'.
> 
> Let's make it "kin-slaying," please, Cindy? It's a nice word, and 
it
> appeals to my Lucky_Kari persona. The sort of thing that went on in
> the Njal Saga a lot. And it's used by Tolkien. What else could you 
want?
> 
> Eileen, donning her Viking helmet to battle for "kin-slaying"


Absolutely!  Sounds like a good plan!

Cindy -- who isn't getting any juicy posts about murder in her batch 
of posts :-(